222 
AMID THE HIGH HILLS 
Deer-hounds, 128 
Deer-stalking, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6-11, 
97-1 1->, 123-35, 155-64., 170-81, 
197-214. 
Deer-stalking in the HigJdands of 
Scotland, 204 
Depth of loch for good trout fishing, 
196 
Downward flight of the eagle, 57-70 
Dresser, Henry E., 53, 53 n. 55 
Dry- Ply Man's Handbook, 194 
Duck, wild, 28-9, 36, 70, 136 
Duck-shooting, 165 
Duel between eagle and peregrine, 
61-2 
Eagle, 36-7, 49, 57-9, 62-5, 67, 69, 
70, 107, 136-8, 142, 153 
attack on a full-grown stag, 139 
downward flight of, 57-60 
food of, 38, 136-7 
weight of, 60 
Eggs, number of trout, 195 
Eleonora's falcons, 51 
Falco cand leans, 38 
Falco gyrfalco, 38 
Falco islandus, 38 
Falconer, 34, 36, 152 
Falcons, 28, 30, 36, 43, 46, 51-2, 57- 
60, 62, 68, 70, 143-5, 149, 151, 
153 
Eleonora's, 51 
Greenland, 38-9 
Iceland, 38-9 
Northern, 38-9, 57 
Fastest bird in British Isles, 57, 70 
Fealar, 74, 170 
Field Studies of some Rarer British 
Birds, 47 
Fighting, stags killed in, 73 
Finlayson, John, stalker, Killilan, 66 
Finlayson, stalker, Applecross, 142 
Fisher, Major C. H., 149 
Fishing, fly-, 13-22, 92-5, 113-22 
minnow-, 93 
salmon, 12-22, 85 
Flight in the British Isles, Birds of 
Fastest, 23-70 
of the eagle, downward, 57 
horizontal, 37 
Forest, Stormy Week in the, 97-112 
Fox cubs, killed by eagles, 138 
dens, 139 
Fresh-water shrimp, 184 
Frigate bird, 54 
Fuligula ferina, 30 
Gaelic sayings and words, HI, 179, 
219 
Gannet, downward flight of, 63 
Geese, speed of, 36 
Glen Carron Forest, 8 
Glen Shieldaig Forest, 140 
Golden eagle {see Eagle) 
weight of the, 60 
plover, 32-3, 35-6, 43, 45-6, 57, 69 
American, 33 
Goose, solan, 63 
Goshawks, 143 
Gould, John, F.R.S., 54, 146 
Green Plover, 35 
Greenland Fal con, 38-9 
Greyhen, 149 
Ground speed, 25 
Grouse, 29, 59, 68, 107, 136-7, 144- 
146, 149-51, 153 
Gulls, 43 
Gyrfalcon, weight of the, 60 
Gyrfalcons, 38-40, 57, 60, 63, 66 
Halford, F. M., 191 n., 194 
Hares, killed by eagles, 136, 138 
Harrier, 49 
Hartley, Gilfrid W., 197 
Hawk,' sparrow-, 49, 143, 147-8 
HaM-ks, 30, 48, 136, 142-53 
Hereford, 88 
Highlands of Scotland, fascination 
of, 216 
Hobby, 45-6, 49 
Homing Instincts of Wounded Deer, 
123-35 
Hounds, deer-, 128 
Hummel, 74 
Hurrell, H. G., 39 
Hutton, J. Arthur, 94-5 
Iceland falcon, 38-9 
Jackdaw, 35 
Jura, 111 
