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INDEX. 
Ve&perugo pipistrellus, 7 0. 
Viola canina, 31. 
Viper, 247. 
Vipera berus, 247. 
Vole, common field, 93 ; water, 92, 304. 
Vulpes vulgaris, 76. 
Waotail, grey, 117 ; pied, 116; Ray's, 
117; white, 116. 
Wallace, 138 note i. 
Wallis, H. M., of Reading, on white- 
tailed eagle, 307. 
Wallis, J. C. M., on the sparrow, 127; 
on the tree-sparrow, etc., 128; on 
grey-lag goose, 184; obtains nest of 
pintail, 190 ; finds goosander near 
Lairg, 196 ; observes whimbrel, 225 ; 
pochard seen by, 310. 
West Cromarty, areas of, 16 ; mountains 
of, 28 ; lochs of, 28 ; faunal position of, 
61. 
Walrus, 81. 
Warbler, blackcap, 108 ; sedge, 112, 304. 
"Water-Craw," 103. 
Water-hen, 208. 
Water-lily, yellow, 34. 
Water-rail, 206, 311. 
Watten, magpie builds at Mill of, 146 ; 
rooks at, 149 ; nightjar at, 154 ; long- 
eared owl breeds in, 160 ; whimbrel in 
parish of, 226. 
Waxwing, 120; H. Osborne on the, 11. 
Weasel, 65 ; common, 77. 
Weever, greater, 264 ; viper, 264. 
Welbeck Abbey, 7, 9 ; collection at, 103 ; 
redbacked shrike at, 120; ravens in 
collection at, 152 ; short-eared owl 
in collection at, 161 ; tawny owl, 
161 ; hen-harrier in collection at, 
165 ; buzzard in collection at, 166 ; 
rough-legged buzzard at, 167 ; eagles 
at, 168; white-tailed eagle, l70 ; Ice- 
land falcon absent from, 173 ; pere- 
grine absent from collection at, 175 ; 
osprey at, 178 ; bittern in collection 
at, 182 ; sheldrake in collection at, 
188 ; red-breasted merganser in collec- 
tion at, 197 ; ptarmigan in collection 
at, 203 ; ringed plover and little plover 
in collection at, 213 ; turnstone in 
collection at, 215 ; little stint in collec- 
tion at, 219 ; purple sandpiper at, 220 ; 
sanderling at, 221 ; pomatorhine skua 
at, 235 ; great northern diver at, 243. 
Wernerian Natural History Society, on 
rock-dove, 199. 
Wester, pintail at, 190. 
Westerseat, Pallas sand grouse shot at, 
200. 
Westfield, rooks at, 149 ; rookery at, 
151 ; long-eared owl from, 160; sparrow- 
hawk at, 171 ; merlin shot at, 176 ; 
whooper shot at, 187 ; Sclavonian 
grebe shot at, 246. 
Westminster, Duke of, his deer-forest, 
35 ; preserves wild-cat, 75 ; improving 
stag heads, 87. 
West Ross, watershed of, 29 ; faunal 
area of, 59 ; water-system of, 60. 
Whale, hump-backed, 83; pilot, 86; 
sperm, 85 ; white, 85. 
Wheatear, 103. 
Whimbrel, 225, 312. 
Whinchat, 104. 
Whitaker, J., of Rainworth Lodge, Not- 
tingham, 7, 9, 160, 162 ; on the rough- 
legged buzzard, 167 ; includes bittern, 
182 ; includes little stint, 219. 
Whitbread, Mr. , 79 ; pheasant intro- 
duced by, at Assynt (1869), 201. 
Whitehills, hammer-headed shark near, 
253 ; grey notidanus at, 254. 
Whiten Head, twite at, 132 ; white-tailed 
eagle near, 168 ; peregrine falcon at, 
174 ; colony of cormorants at, 179. 
Whitethroat, 108. 
Whiting, 274. 
" Whitteret," 65, 78. 
Whooper, 186. 
Wick, 2, 44, 84 ; geology, etc. , of parish 
of, 6 ; birth-place of H. Osborne, 11 ; 
prison, 11 ; birds in jjarish of, 62 ; 
water-shrew at, 74 ; rorqual at, 83 ; 
deer at, 88 ; song-thvush seen at, 99 ; 
redstart at, 107 ; redbreast at, 108 ; 
English cole tit at, 114; great grey 
shrike in market-place of, 119; swallow 
at, 123 ; " Old Man of," frequented by 
martins, 123 ; nest of siskin found at, 
126 ; greenfinch in garden at, 126 ; 
rooks in chimneys of, 150 ; Stack of, 
ravens breed on, 153 ; lesser spotted 
wood-pecker at, 155 ; purple heron ob- 
tained in parish of, 182 ; whooper at, 
187 ; Pallas sand-grouse shot near, 200 ; 
quail near, 202 ; lapwing in parish of, 
214 ; grey phalarope obtained near, 
216 ; little stint shot at, 219 ; ruff shot 
near, 221 ; Arctic tern breeds near. 
