Part 25

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