224 
AMID THE HIGH HILLS 
Royal stag, 80, 174, 179, 204 
Ruskin, 181 
St. John, Charles, 32, 164 
Salmon fishing, 12-22, 85-96, 113- 
122 
Salmon Loch in Sutherland, 113-22 
Sanctuary, 123 
Saunders, Howard, 53 n. 
Secret of the High Hills, 215-20 
Sedge, cinnamon, 186 
red, 186 
Seebohm, 54 
Sheringham, H. T., 96 
Shooting, duck-, 165 
Shrimp, fresh-water, 184 
Shrimp-weed, 184 
Snipe, 28-9, 65 
Solan goose, 63 
Sovenson, E. S., 54 
Sparrow-hawks, 49, 143, 147-8 
Speed, air, 25 
ground, 25 
of Australian birds, 54 
Speeds of British birds, table of, 
35-6 
fastest, 57, 70 
Speedy, Tom, 151-3 
Speedy's Natural History of Sport 
in Scotland with Rod and Gun, 
205 
Spine-tailed swift, 40-42, 51-3, 6b- 
57, 70 
Spring-tide, 165 
Stags, age of, 110-11 
attacking stalkers, wounded, 155 
danger of wounded, 157 
eagles attack full-grown, 139 
stalking {nee Deer-stalking) 
Stalkers, 64, 71 
wounded stags attacking, 155 
Stalking, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6-11, 71-84, 97- 
112, 123-35, 155-64, 170-81, 
197-214 
mistakes in, 6-10 
StalU Abroad, 156 
Starling, 35-6 
Stormy Week in the Forest, 97-112 
Strathconan, 66-7 
Stuart, Hamish, 192 
Surgeon of the Deer Forest, 196-214 
Sutherland, A Salmon Loch in, 113 
Swallows, 43 
Swan, 152 
Swift, 36, 40, 42-8, 50-51 
Alpine, 41-2, 49-53, 56-7 
common, 40-42, 46, 49-50, 53 
needle-tailed or spine-tailed, 40- 
42, 51-3, 55, 70 
Switch-horn, 73-4 
Tame pigeons, 36 
Teal, 28, 33-6, 46, 57 
Tennj'son, 21 n. 
Three, luck in number, 92 
Tickell, 55 
Tiercel, 42, 46 
Tracker, 128 
Trout eggs, number of, 195 
loch, how to improve, 182-96 
Velocity of falling birds, 61 
Waders, speed of, 36 
Wallace, Frank, 156 
Weight, influence of in flight, 30, 
60 
of the eagle, 60 
of the gyrfalcon, 60 
of the peregrine, 60 
Wild duck, 28-9, 36-70 
Wild Sport with Gun, Rifle, and 
Salmon Rod, 197 
}yild Sports and Natural History 
of the Uiijhlands, 37, 164 
^^'illoughb3•, Colonel the Hon. 
Claude, 141 
Wings, 54, 58, 142, 145, 150 
\\itherby, H. F., 53 n. 
Mood pigeon, 35, 152 
^^'oodcock, 28-30 
Wounded Deer, Homing Instincts 
of, 123-35 
stags, attacking stalkers, 155-64 
danger of, 81, 157 
^^'ye, river, 12, 85 
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