Buntings, rare at Selborne,
Bustards, 118, 153.
Butcher-bird, 82.
Buzzard-honey, 363.
Call of birds, 337. Canary birds naturalized, 54. Cane, a synonym of the weasel, 64. Cancer cured, 79. Caprimulgus, or fern-owl, 91, 153, 180, 356, 393. Carp in severe weather, 244. Carex cespitosa, 28. Castration, 298. Cats, fond of fish, 141.
suckling a leveret, 302. suckling a squirrel, 304. Chaffinches, flocks of hen, 57, 161.
Chalk hills, beautiful, 216.
their probable forma-
tion, 355. Charadrius oedicnemus, 67, 87, 113, 159, 355, 393. Chiff-chaff, 80, 194. Chimney-swallow, 222, 226,
Chinese dogs, 390. Choughs, 153.
Coccus vitis viniferæ, 374.
Falcons, 43, 46, 51, 388. Fauna Selbornensis, 21.
Fern-owl, 91, 93, 95, 98, 138, 153, 180, 294. Field-cricket, 345. Field-fares, 43, 119, 131. Field-mouse, 194.
Fish at Selborne, 29, 48, 378. Flusher, 83.
Fly-catcher, 70, 140, 193, 247. Fogs, 288.
Forest flies, 200.
Fossils at Selborne, 10.
of wood, 393.
Grallæ migrating, 75. Grasshopper-lark, 69. Green lizard, 90. Gregarious habits of horses and cows, 275. Grey fly-catcher, 41. Grosbeak, 47.
Guernsey lizard, 97. Gurdon, Sir Adam, 7.
Hail-storm at Selborne, 419. Hanger, the, 2.
Hampton bridge, 8. Harvest-mouse, 52. bug, 170.
Hasel-wych, 6. Hawkley-hanger, 342. Hawk, sparrow, 337, 363. blue, 242.
Larch-trees in Holt forest, 33. Late springs, 169.
Leveret, suckled by a cat, 302. Linnets, 57.
Lithe, the, 346.
Loaches from Ambresbury, 78.
Loon, or diver, 108.
Lop and top, 35. Losel's wood, 8.
Malm, black and white, 4. Maiden-hair brushes, 282. Martins, 207, 209, 211, 308, 369, 380, 385. Mice, 51, 67.
nest, 52, 59, 60, 242. Migration at Gibraltar, 165. of the ring-ousel, 88. Missel-thrush, 202, 264. Monogamous birds, 140.
Mouse-deer, 133.
Motacilla trochilus, 41. Motion of birds, 331. Museum (countryman's), 43. Muscicapa grisola, 41. Mus minimus, 67. Mustella weasels, 64. Mytilus crista galli, 10.
Naturalist's walk, 102. Newt, or water-eft, 74, 84. Nightingale, 168, 240. Norehill, 4.
Northern birds, 168, 240. Noxious insects, 172. Nuthatch, 71.
Oak-hanger, 28. Oaks of temple, 5.
Oaks in Wolmer forest, 33. Oak in the Plestor, 7. Estrus curvicandæ, 171. boris, 42.
Osprey, or sea-eagle, 20. Ostrea carinata, 10. Otter, killed, 142.
Owl-eagle, 121. Owl-hawking, 197.
Owls, 48, 91, 93, 169, 174, 197, 335.
hoot in different keys,
Parasitic insects, 199.
Partridges, 21.
Passeres, 117. Peacocks, 173.
Pectines in freestone, 12. Pettichaps (chiff-chaff), 387. Peregrine falcon, 43, 46, 57, 388.
Pheasants, 21, 242. Pigeons drinking, 244. Plants at Selborne, 327. Planting evergreens, 400. Plestor, the, 7. Plovers, 356.
Sheep of improved breeds, 217.
Shrew-mouse, 122.
Slugs, injurious to wheat, 306. Snakes, error respecting, 76. stink se defendendo, 113.
Song-birds, 117.
Snipes,their piping and hum- ming, 41, 72, 205. Snow-flock, 120.
Sociality of animals, 274. Soft-billed birds, 55.
Sow, fecundity of the, 299. Spaniels, 391.
Sparrows, 141, 153. Sparrow-hawk, 364.
Sporting inherent in man- kind, 24.
Squirrel, suckled by a cat, 302.
Stock-dove, 169, 202, 364. Stone-chat, 204. Stone, free, 13.
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