INDEX. 
343 
227 ; lesser tern near, 228 ; glaucous 
gull killed near, 234 ; porbeagle about, 
253 ; thrasher shark at, 253 ; viper 
weaver at, 264; " horsefish " about, 
271 ; cook vrrasse taken at, 273 ; tur- 
bot got off, 278 ; migration of eels at, 
293 ; great pipe fish at, 295. 
Wick Bay, purple sandpiper in, 220 ; 
Montagu's sucker obtained in, 207. 
Wick Bridge, great northern diver killed 
near, 243. 
Wick, the river, 19, 44, 52, 92 ; whooper 
on, 187 ; dunlin on, 219 ; great northern 
diver on, 243 ; red-necked grebe seen | 
on, 245 ; flounder in, 280 ; pike caught 
in, 283. 
Widgeon, 25, 190, 309. 
Wigtovi^nshire, ravens in, 151 note. 
Wild-boar, 66, 86. 
Wild-cat, in Sutherland, 26, 75, 303. 
Wild-duck, 188. 
Wild-geese breed about Badenloch, 27. 
Wild white cattle, 89. 
Wilkinson, Charles, shoots buzzard at 
Stirkoke, 166 ; shoots hobby at Thrum- 
ster, 175. 
Willow wren, 110, 304. 
" Willy wet-feet," 222. 
Wilson, Dr., observes cirl bunting, 136 ; 
mentions purple heron, 182. 
Wilson, James, 5, 62 note 125 ; A 
Voyage round the Coasts of Scotland, 
etc. (1842), 6; on the sheldrake, 188 ; 
sees specimen of little gull, 231. 
Wilson of Aberdeen, 86. 
Wilson of Terperslie, Alford, 139 note 
Wilson of Woodville, 240. 
Wolf, 69, 76 ; the last, of Sutherland, 26 ; 
in Scotland 1630 a.d. and till c. 1700 
A.D., 65. 
Wolf-fish, 268. 
Wolley, 126, 169 ; manuscripts of, 7 ; 
on the ring-ouzel, 102 ; finds nest of 
twite, 131 ; on the raven, 152; on hen- 
harrier, 164 ; on the buzzard, 166 ; on 
the eagle, 167 ; on the white-tailed 
eagle, 169 ; obtains eggs of white-tailed 
eagle from Dunnet Head, 170 ; receives 
eggs of sparrow-hawk from Sutlierland, 
171 ; on the merlin, 175 ; on heronry 
near Golspie, 181 ; on greylag goose, 
184 ; fails to find scaup in 1849, 192 ; 
sees captive little bustard, 209 ; on the 
egg of little bustard, 210 ; shoots dun- 
lin near Loch Assynt, 218 ; on sand- 
piper, 222 ; on the egg of the green- 
shank, 224 ; shoots common tern off 
Badcall, 228 ; on guillemot, 240 ; re- 
cords great-crested newt, 250 ; obtains 
palmated newt, 250. 
Woodcock, 56, 216. 
Woodpecker, greater spotted, 155, 306 ; 
green, 156. 
Wood-wren, 111, .304. 
Wormald, J., shoots red-breasted mer- 
ganser at Freswick, 197 ; kills great 
snipe at Freswick, 217 ; kills godwit at 
Freswick (1878), 225. 
I Wotton & Co., Taunton, 134. 
Wrasse, ballan, 272, 273 ; cook, 273 ; 
small-mouthed, 273. 
Wren, 116, 304 ; of St. Kilda, 116. 
Wright, James, of Rawcliffe Hall, 173. 
Wryneck, 156. 
Wych-elm at Tongue, 42. 
Xema sahinii, 229 . 
Xiphias gladius, 261. 
Yellowhammer, 136. 
Young, A., vi, 285. 
Young, J. G. K., on the redstart, 106 ; 
on the house-martin, 123 ; observes 
flock of twite, 132 ; on absence of star- 
ling at Inchnadamph, 145, 286 note. 
Young of Invershin, collection of trout 
skins by, 288. 
Zeus faber, 262. 
Zoarces vwiparus, 269. 
Zoologist on nesting tours, 7 ; on palmated 
newt, 250 ; on the roller, 306. 
Zygana malleus, 253. 
Some of our readers may consider our Index unnecessarily full and even prolix. 
Our object is to afford every possibility for future additions being easily made, 
