INDEX 
221 
Pentlands, the, 119 
Pine trees, size of, 202 ; three, 208 
Pirie, Prof., attends MacGillivray’s 
lectures, 152 
Playfair, Mr, 75 
Plover, the golden, 162, 176, 184- 
86; their nests, 177 ; song, 184 ; 
pages, 186 ; ring, 186 
Pollewe, 16, 17 
Portland Island, 212 
Pyecraft, W. P., x 
Quadrupeds , History of British , 
86, 115 
Rapacious Birds of Great Britain , 
Descriptions of the , 86, 115; 
extracts from the preface, 13, 
25, 57, 60, 62, 63, 87 ; dedication, 
75 
Rattlesnake Expedition, 111 
Ravelston Woods, 96 
Ravens, 93, 175, 177 ; sports of, 
205 
Ring-Plover, the Common, 186 
Rooks, flight of, 167 
Ross, 173 
Sabbath, mode of keeping the, 44 
Salix herbacea , 31 
Sandpipers, 177, 190 ; flight of, 171 
Schiehallion, 33 
Schwalbe, Prof., his investigations 
on stoats, 130 
Scott, Sir Walter, his impression 
of Audubon, 67 
Seaforth, Loch, 172 
Sea-pie, the, 187 
Shand, Mr James, accompanies 
MacGillivray on a tour, 14; 
spends a night near Loch Maree, 
16 
Silene acaulis, 31 
Sim, George, The Vertebrate Fauna 
of Dee, 155 
Skye, 21, 24, 173 
Smith, Sir Charles, Flora Brit- 
annica , 14,19, 26 
Snipe, the song, 176; shrill two- 
noted cry, 192; drumming 
sound, 164, 192 
Sparganium natans , 32 
Sparrows, flight of, 167 
Species, views on the origin of, 88, 
146-48; variations, 148-50 
Spey, the, 32, 174 
Springfield, 38 
Squirrel, habits of, 128; descrip¬ 
tion, 145 
Stanley, Capt. Owen, in command 
of the Rattlesnake , 111 
Stirling, 73 
Stoats, investigations on, 130 
Stoney-Stratford, 51 
Stranraer, 37 
Stratford, 52 
Strathspey, 28, 32 
Sydney, 111 
“ Tacksmen,” meaning of the term, 
18 
Tarbert, Loch, 172 
Thomas’s Hospital, St, criticism on, 
82 
Thomson, Prof. J. Arthur, “ Mac¬ 
Gillivray’s Scientific Work—an 
Appreciation,” ix, 114 
Thrush, song of the, 180 
Tit, the long-tailed, number of 
feathers in the nest, 128, 146; 
description of the nest, 146 
Torquay, 109 ; scene at, 211 
Torres Straits, 111 
Totanus hypoleucos , or sandpiper, 
190 
Trail, Prof. J. W. H., 147; 
“Natural Science in the Aber¬ 
deen Universities,” 116 > note , 
154 ; on the characteristics of 
MacGillivray, 120, 129; on the 
value of his book The Mollusca of 
Scotland , 153 
Traprain eminence, 163 
Travelling, benefits from, 17 
Treviranus, 147 
Trossachs, the, 73 
Tulloch, Loch, the ravens at, 93 
Turner, H. N., 137 note 
Tweed, the, 194 
Tyrannus verticalis , or Fly catcher, 
136 
Uig Mountain, 174 
Uist, South, island of, 1, 112, 157, 
173 
Urga, 172 
Vaccinium myrtillus , 203 
Vestiges of tile Natural History of 
Creation , 147 s 151 
