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 _Printed in Great Britain by_ R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, _Edinburgh_. 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.