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Note about the heron which reads 'Live eels go thro the Heron + she turns round + eats it again!'

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Note about the 'samhnachan' or large river trout that when it goes up stream it becomes 'black dark' and it comes in the summer and goes up with the salmon. The states for the trout are given as 'Banag Liag Breac & Samhnachain'. Text scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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Note about the shellfish 'Giolla fionn' [large periwinkle] and 'Portan' [crabs] which reads 'The Giolla fionn is the best [one] of all. Portan alive 3/4 year.'

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Note entitled 'Seachdain Na Crodha' about rutting stags and the season in which this happens. Scored through is vocabulary that 'dairbeart' is a sort of water beetle. Text scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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Notes about crabs casting their shells, including that this usually happens at the end of July, that the female casts first and that casting is done in pairs with one protecting the other against intruders while casting takes place. Each line of the text has been scored trhough horizontally.

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Notes about fish probably collected on Ìle/Islay, including that 'Bodach rua [is] son of Trosg' [cod]; lists of fish which are similar to each other; names for juvenile and adult types of fish; descriptions such as 'Braga 2 spots like had[dock] or S[malag]. P[iocach]. fish. 3 fins on S[malag]. P[iocach]. fish sun shape'; and comparisons of places to find particular types of fish.

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Notes about fish and crabs collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann including that 'An Clabciochrain' is 'iasg gran[n]da' [an ugly fish]; 'A Ghibneach = Fion Musg[an]'; that the crab 'An Cleireach' 'is on sentry while she is in the hole while casting' and 'An Deiseag [velvet crab] = Thin legs + venomous for grip[pin]g'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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Notes about the bird 'buigire' [puffin] that they arrive and leave Hiorta/St Kilda every year, flying in clouds, in circles, darkening the sky and landing on rocks.

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Notes about the nesting habits of birds collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann] including that the chicks of the cearc-fhiar, feadag and rua-chearc leave the nest as soon as they hatch and that the gob-da-lire nests at the edge of lakes. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Scope and Contents Story and note about eels collected from Ian Macaulay [John MacAulay], from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann]. The story tells how Ian's mother had lost her loinid [churn-staff] and it was discovered in a well, which was 'alive with eels...All wriggling in the most extrao[rdinary] manner + their tails tied togeth[er] in the twisted or plaited rope.' Notes that eels breed in the sea but he never saw any roe in those that he fished...