Its attractions for wild-fowl.-Spring and summer visitors.-Winter,
or the season.-Crowded with company at that time.-The Castle
of Galbraith.-Eight days' duck-stalking during the gay season,
Varieties of British falcons and hawks.-Their capabilities.-Sparrow-
hawk and teal.-Hawk and wild-duck.-A pupil of John Ander-
son.-Peregrines of Glen-Douglas.—An October hawking-day.—
Flying the hawk at snipe.-At crows and magpies,
The cushat or wood-pigeon.-Spring habits.—Winter flocks.-A white
ring-dove. The stranger.-Wild pigeon or stock-dove. Not the
stocker of the pigeon-house.-Rock-doves the wild originals of
the dove-cot.-The turtle-dove,
Rock-ousels gregarious in autumn.-Feed on fruit.-Hatch in low
bushes on lonely waste ground.-Young have no ring. The river-
ousel also a bird of solitude in spring.-Frequents the mountain