Amid the High Hills

by Sir Hugh Fraser

• 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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FOOTNOTES.

[1] “The Death of the Wye,” Images and Meditations, a Book of Poems, by Mary Duclaux. T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., London.

[2] It is singular that this poem was written and published in 1849, and that Tennyson’s In Memoriam, which contained the famous lines:

“’T is better to have loved and lost,

Than never to have loved at all,”

was written in 1834 but not published until 1850, and then anonymously. This is surely very remarkable, for it is impossible to believe that a man of the high and noble character of Clough would have consciously plagiarised any other poet.