THE WILDFOWLER IN SCOTLAND. By John Guille Millais, F.Z.S., etc.

(1901) 1974 1st Tideline edition. 4to (210mm x 260mm). Ppxvi,167. B/w plates and illustrations by author, photographs. Red boards, gilt wildfowler with oval border to upper board, gilt mallard motif and titles to spine.

This is John Guille Millais' recollections of a lifetime's wildfowling, ashore and afloat, with many illustrations by the author. Chapters include: A general description of Scotland as a resort of wildfowl; On day and evening shooting by the sea; On moonlight shooting - the fowler's dog, and wanderings by the sea; On marsh and lake shooting - with certain observations on the habits of wild-geese; A morning with the 8-bore; Field notes on the northern firths; A day with the punt-gun on the Moray Firth; On shooting under canvas, and some reminiscences of the Orkneys. Appendix - Notes on the northern firths and observations on the appearance of the British ducks.