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