INDEX. 



413 



Cockroach, 337. 



Congregating of birds, 147, 169, 326. 

 Coots, 245. 

 Crickets, field, 253. 



— house, 256, 338. 



— mole, 258. 

 Crossbill, 41, 124, 173,400. 

 Crows, 1 38, 293. 



Cuckoo, 91, 107, 113, 123, 142, 217, 



330. 

 Cuckoo-pint, 60. 

 Cucumbers set by bees, 354. 

 Cui-lew, stone, 61, 79, 97, 129, 320. 



D. 



Dabchicks, 245. 



Daws, 80, 81. 



Destruction of birds, 398, 399. 



Deer, 29, 35, 55, 111, 119. 



Deer-stealers, their exploits, 30, 398. 



Divers, 244; great speckled, 317. 



Dogs, 282—284, 407. 



Doves, 138,266—268. 



Drey, or nest, 333. 



Ducks, 310. 



Dung of nestling-birds, 167. 



E. 



Eagle-owl, 103,404. 



Earth-worms, 346. 



Echoes, 232—236, 287. 



Eels in the island of Ely, 1 87. 



Eft, 71, 75. 



Elm, or wych-hazel, 16, 17, 396. 



Eve-jarr, 321. 



Fairy rings, 355. 

 Falcon, peregrine, 40, 46, 281, 400. 

 Fernchafer, 145, 188, 336. 

 Fern-owl, 114, 123, 145,219, 321, 



323. 

 Fieldfares, 102, 103, 110, 133. 

 Fish, 345 ; gold and silver, 273. 

 Flies, 140, 159, 160, 342,405. 

 Flight of birds, 242. 

 Flv-catcher, 38, 63, 115, 155, 189. 

 Fdklore, 213, 229, 257. 

 Food of bii-ds, 307, 315, 329. 



Food influences the colour of birds 



and animals, 60, 306. 

 Forest-lly, or side-fly, 160. 

 Foster-dams, 223, 406. 

 Fossil shells, 20, 397. 

 Fossil wood, 285. 

 Fowls, 247, 310. 

 Freestone, 21. 

 Frogs, 67, 70, 409. 

 Frost, its effect on animals, 1 1 3 ; oU 



trees and shrubs, 289 ; on fisli^ 



294 ; on birds, 295. 



Galling order, 123, 344. 

 Geese, wild, 103, 310. 

 Geology of Selborne, 1 6, 396. 

 German silk-tail {garrulus hohemicvs), 



48. 

 Gipsies, 207. 

 Glow-worm, 92, 346. 

 Goat-sucker, 83, 86, 321—323. 

 Gossamer, 203. 

 Gx'asshopper-lark, 38. 63. 

 Greatham, the manor-farm, 31. 

 Grosshawk, 41, 400. 

 Gross-beaks, 41,329. 

 Grylhts domeMicus (house cricket), 



256, 338. 

 Guinea fowls, 310, 311. 



H. 



Hares, white, 103. 

 Hanger, the, 1 3. 

 Harvest-bug, 1 39. 

 Hatching of eggs, 107, 114, 4C4. 

 Hawkley-hanger, 251. 

 Hawks, 219,265. 

 Ha7;el, wych, 16. 

 Heath-fires, why lighted, 30. 

 Heath burnings, 31. 

 Hedge-hogs, 109,404. 

 Hedge-sparrows, 1 1 3, 1 87. 

 Hellebore, stinking, 240, 241 

 Heliotropes, 249. 

 Hen-harriers, 187, 316. 

 Herons, 83. 

 Himantopus 2f0. 



