Teetotalers, Difficulties of, in Highlands, 318 Telegraph Wire, Photographing Swallows on, 350 Temperateness of St. Kildans, 35 Tern, An Angry, 256 — Roseate, at Farne Islands, 256 Terns and Protective Coloration, 254 — Clutches of Eggs of, 254 — Defencelessness of, 257 — Fishing for Prey, 256 — Harmonisation of Young, with Surrounding Objects, 252 — Strange Conduct of, 250, 256 — Wakefulness of, 242 — Where they breed, 250 — Young, Variation of Colour of, 252 Testing Strength of a Spider's Web, 359 Thirsts, Noble and Ignoble, 322 Thrush, Early Morning Song of, 133 Thrushes, Where they sleep, 234 —— Young, 220 Timber bored by Teredos, 47 —— Washed on St. Kilda by Gulf Stream, 46 Tit, Blue, Nest of, 223 Tits, „ Habits of, 224 — Curious Nesting-Places of, 196 — Sleeping Quarters of, 238 Tobacco for St. Kildans, 1 Tourists, Behaviour of, 51 Tragedy at St. Kilda, 54 Trap, Cat, 153 — Curious Fox, 153, 154 — Figure-of-Four, 144 Trapping Cats, 152 —— Nightingales, 290 —— Stoats, 143, 144 Tree Creeper, Devotion of a, 199 — Hollow tenanted by Jackdaws and Bees, 193 Trees, Dangers and Difficulties of Photographing Nests in, 344, 346, 348

Trees, Grouse roosting in, 164 Turf, Burning, used by Decoy-men, 305

Underground Dwelling at St. Kilda, 13; on Borrera, 82 Ulysses, A Modern, 130

Vermin, Bait for, 146 Viking Spearhead found at St. Kilda, 13 Village Bay, Curious Effect of Wind in, 95 —— „ Dangers of, 95 —— „ Narrow Escape in, 96 —— „ Storm in, 96 Vole, Water, Photographing, 354

Wagtail, Pied, Curious Nesting-Place of, 196, 228 —— Gray, Photographing, 200 Water, Falling into a Shaft full of, 358 —— Photographing in, 352 —— Supply at St. Kilda, 43 Waterhen (see Moorhen) Waves, Effect of, on Passengers, 3 —— Magnificence of, 122 Weather suitable for calling Grouse, 162 Weather-Wisdom of a Hebridean, 2 Wedding Rings unknown at St. Kilda, 22 Whale and Shags, 315 —— Jawbone of, 46 —— Oil from a Dead, 46 Wheatear, Early Rising of, 100 Whimbrel caught at St. Kilda, 57 Whistle, Steam, Effect of, 6 Widows, How cared for at St. Kilda, 53 Wild Duck, Behaviour of, in a Decoy Pipe, 308 —— „ Big Catch of, 295 —— „ Following Decoy-man's Dog, 308 —— „ Photographing, 358 —— „ Powers of Scent, 305 —— „ Season for taking, 304 —— „ Seen from a Decoy Pipe, 306 —— „ Where and when they sleep, 241 Wind, Curious Effect of, 95 Woman's Esteem, Winning a, 313 —— Skirt fastened with a French Nail, 18 Women leave Church before Men at St. Kilda, 10 —— of St. Kilda, Suspicion of, 26 Wool cut off Sheep with Knives, 41 Wreck, A Narrow Escape from, 130–133 Wren, Common, Asleep, 232 —— „ “Cocks,” Nests of, 186 —— „ Materials of Nest-building, 186 —— „ Nest of, 184 —— „ Positions of Nest of, 186 —— „ Stealing Nesting Materials, 190 —— Golden-crested, said to have been caught by Spider's Web, 358 —— St Kilda, on Soa, 114 —— „ How it Differs from Mainland Species, 71 —— „ Nest of, 74 —— „ Photographing a, 74 —— „ „ Nest of, 75 —— „ Young, 72, 73 —— Wood, Nest of, 223

Yellow-hammer, Alarm Note of, 234 —— Sleeping Quarters of, 234 Yorkshire, Highest Inhabited House in 327 Yorkshireman's Dry Humour, 328 —— “Grand Day,” 349 —— Queer Notions of London, 328

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