INDEX

Acanthyllis caudacuta, [40], [55]
Acanthyllis gigantea, [55]
Aeroplane, observations on flight of birds from, [50]
Age of stags, [110-11]
Air speed, [25]
A Joy for Ever, [181]
Alpine swift, [41-2], [49-53], [56-7]
American golden plover, [33]
An Angler’s Paradise, [191]
Applecross, [141-2]
Apus, [53]
Armour, G. Denholm, [58]
Attadale, [73]
Australia, birds of fastest flight in, [54]
Avicultural Magazine, [54] n.
Aytoun, [218]
Baker, E. Stuart, [55]
Balfour-Browne, Vincent, [164]
Bas, [217]
Bhasaich, [217]
Birds, speeds of various British, [35-6]
Birds of Australia, twelve swiftest, [54]
Birds of Europe, History of, [53] n.
Birds of Fastest Flight in the British Isles, [23-70]
Birds of Great Britain, [146]
[Birds of prey], [39-52], [57-70], [136-54]
Blackcock, [35], [37], [45], [50], [58-9], [65], [138]
Black game, killed by peregrines and eagles, [29], [66], [137-8], [149]
Blaine, Captain G. S., [45], [148]
Blanford, W. T., [56]
Blue rock pigeons, [35], [44-5]
Bond, William Walpole, [47]
Book of the Sea Trout, [192]
British Museum (Natural History), [41]
Browne, Bishop G. F., [22] n.
Buzzard, [49]
Caberslach, [74]
Calf, deer, attacked by eagle, [142]
Canadian Boat Song, [217]
Caochladh, [219]
Capercailzie, probably fastest flying game bird, [45], [50]
Carter, H. R. P., [57]
Cats, killed by eagles, [138]
Chaetura, [51], [53]
Chaetura caudacuta caudacuta, [40], [53], [55]
Chaetura caudacuta cochinchinensis, [55]
Chaetura nudipes, [55-6], [57]
Chaochail, [217]
Chaytor, Arthur H., K.C., [93-5]
Clough, Arthur Hugh, [21]
Coignafearn, Forest of, [71]
Common swift, [40-42], [46], [49], [50], [53]
Corvidae, [36]
Crealock, Lieut.-General, [204]
Crow, killed by eagle, [68-9]
Culture, trout, [189]
Curlew, [36], [69]
Currachd an righ, [179]
Cypselus apus, [40]
Cypselus melba, [40]
Danger of wounded stags, [157]
Deer, Homing Instincts of Wounded, [123-35]
Deer calves, attacked by eagles, [139]
Deer-hounds, [128]
[Deer-stalking], [1], [2], [4], [5], [6-11], [97-112], [123-35], [155-64], [170-81], [197-214]
Deer-stalking in the Highlands 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-Fly 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 candicans, [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, [111], [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 Falcon, [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]
Hawks, [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]
Kestrel, [35], [49], [142]
Killilan, [66]
King’s night-cap, [179]
Kite, [49]
Lambs, killed by eagles, [138]
Lame Dog’s Diary, [217]
Landrail, speed of, [35]
Last Stalk of the Season, [170-81]
Letters to a Salmon Fisher’s Sons, [93]
Life History and Habits of Salmon, etc., [190], [193]
Loch Carron, [10]
Leven, [185]
trout, [191]
Luichart, [204]
problem, [182]
Lodges in the Highlands, highest shooting, [171]
Lost in the Forest, [209]
Macdougall, stalker, Fealar, [171]
McIver, Donald, [66]
Mackay, John, stalker, North Jura, [111]
Mackenzie, Alick, stalker, Applecross, [141]
Maclennan, watcher, Coignafearn, [72]
Macnaughtan, S., [217]
Mallard, [30-31], [33-5], [70]
Malloch, P. D., [190], [191] n., [192-3], [196]
Mar Forest, [74]
Marryat, [194]
Matheson, Donald, stalker, Glen Shieldaig, [140]
Meinertzhagen, D.S.O., Colonel R., [27], [31], [33], [35], [42], [50], [52]
Merlin, [35], [45-6], [49], [147]
Mesopotamia, swifts in, [50]
Minnow-fishing for salmon, [93]
Mosul, swifts in, [50]
Muckle Hart of Ben More, [164]
Murray, Charles J., Esq., of Loch Carron, [10], [140]
Natural History Museum at South Kensington, [41]
Natural History of Sport in Scotland with Rod and Gun (Speedy), [150], [191], [205]
Nature’s cures of wounded deer, [196-914]
Needle-tailed swift, [40], [52-3]
Nerve Centres in deer, [214]
Northern falcons, [38-9], [57]
Orrin, [149]
Otter, salmon killed by, [20], [86]
Partridges, [27], [99], [35], [147], [149]
Passeres, smaller, [36]
Patt Forest, [66]
Peregrine, horizontal flight of, [26-40], [42], [45-6], [49], [52], [137]
downward flight of, [57-63], [68-70]
food of, [38]
how it strikes its prey, [142-54]
weight of, [60]
Perils, of stalkers, [81]
Peschiera, [21]
Petrels, [43]
Pheasants, [29], [35], [58-9], [144-5]
Pigeons, [37], [44-5]
blue rock, [44-5]
rock-, [51]
speed of, [36]
wood, [35], [152]
Plover, [33]
American golden, [33]
golden, [32-3], [35-6], [43], [45-6], [57], [69]
green, [35]
“Poca buidhè,” [180]
Pochard, [30-31], [45]
Portal, D.S.O., Captain C. F. A., [26], [34], [52], [146], [151]
Prey, birds of (see [Birds of prey])
Ptarmigan, [3], [65], [107], [136]
Rabbits, [136]
Radclyffe, Major C. R. E., [28-30], [34], [39], [44], [65], [143], [151]
Red sedge, [186]
Reminiscences of a Falconer, [149]
Robinson, W. H., [69]
Rock-pigeon, [51]
Rook, [35], [154]
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], [55-57], [70]
Spring-tide, [165]
Stags, age of, [110-11]
attacking stalkers, wounded, [155]
danger of wounded [157]
eagles attack full-grown, [139]
stalking (see [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]
Stalks 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]
Tennyson, [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]
Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands, [37], [164]
Willoughby, Colonel the Hon. Claude, [141]
Wings, [54], [58], [142], [145], [150]
Witherby, H. F., [53] n.
Wood pigeon, [35], [152]
Woodcock, [28-30]
Wounded Deer, Homing Instincts of, [123-35]
stags, attacking stalkers, [155-64]
danger of, [81], [157]
Wye, river, [12], [85]

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