CHAPTER PAGE
I.My Island Again![1]
II.Spoiler and Spoiled[9]
III.From Darkness to Light[15]
IV.Duckings and Bobbings[26]
V.A Vengeful Community[31]
VI.Metempsychosis[37]
VII.Bird Sympathy[39]
VIII.Enchanted Caverns[47]
IX.Ducks and Divers[59]
X.From the Edge of a Precipice[68]
XI.Darwinian Eider-ducks[74]
XII.On the Great Ness-side[81]
XIII.Mother and Child[88]
XIV."Dream Children"[95]
XV.New Developments[104]
XVI.Flight and Fancy[110]
XVII.Mouths with Meanings[122]
XVIII.Learning to Soar[133]
XIX.The Dance of Death[138]
XX."By Any Other Name"![150]
XXI."Not Always to the Strong"[156]
XXII.Children of the Mists[160]
XXIII.Love on the Ledges[172]
XXIV.Grouse Aspirations[190]
XXV.Unorthodox Attitudes[203]
XXVI.Pied Pipers[218]
XXVII.A Bitter Disappointment[225]
XXVIII.Tammy-Norie-land[234]
XXIX.Thoughts in a Sentry-box[249]
XXX.Intersexual Selection[261]
XXXI.An All-day Sitting[284]
XXXII.Three Murderers[297]
XXXIII.Gulls and Gibbon[314]
XXXIV.All about Seals[327]
XXXV.The Devil's Advocate[342]
XXXVI.Comparing Notes[365]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A Seal's Dormitory[Photogravure Frontispiece]
Bird SympathyFacing page [42]
From the Rocks of Raasey Isle" [84]
On the Edge of the Precipice" [92]
Aerial Piracy" [133]
A Seal's Plaything" [216]
A Perilous Journey" [288]
"One More Unfortunate"" [308]
"Nature Red in Tooth and Claw"" [316]
Polite but Insistent" [346]

[THE BIRD WATCHER]
IN THE SHETLANDS

WITH SOME NOTES ON SEALS
—AND DIGRESSIONS

[CHAPTER I]