Amid the High Hills

• 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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