_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