INDEX
Reading edition
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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