Part 27

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