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INDEX, 
C 
CALENDARS, comparative view of 
White’s and Markwick’s, 449 eé¢ 
Seq. 
Cancers, alleged cures of by toads, 
A 
Candles, rushes best adapted for, 
I9I 
Carp, supposed torpidity of the, 105 
Castration, singular effects of, 206 
Cat and leveret, anecdote of a, 208 
Cat, young rats suckled by a, 209 
squirrels nurtured by a, 402 
Chapel of Whaddon, account of the, 
365 
Chiff-chaff, or willow-wren, opinion 
regarding the, 47 
Chimney-swallow, peculiar habits of 
the, 165 
Cobwebs, extraordinary display of, 
184 
Coccus, an insect rarely seen in 
England, 254 
Cockchafer, the, noticed by many 
Greek authors, 68 
general remarks on, 405 
Cockroach, habits of the, 407 
Coins, old, found near Selborne, 
342 
Colour, influence of, on the food of 
birds, 379 
Congregation of birds, reasons for 
the, 145 
Copper coins found at Selborne, 287 
Copulation of rooks, 381 
Courage of birds in defence of their 
young, 150 
Cricket, the house, habits of, 243, 
408 
Cuckoo, nests selected by the, 126 
why eggs are said not to be 
hatched by the, 202 
Cure for the bite of a viper, 53 
D 
DAws, the nest-building of, 61 
Description of Selborne Church, 
292—296 
Dogs, aversion of, to dead game, 266 
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Dogs, remarks about, 265 
Ducks capable of perching in trees, 
383 ; 
Dusting and washing birds, 135 
E 
EcHo, how to produce an, 220 
Echoes, Virgil’s notion regarding, 
219 
Edward II., anecdote of, 290 
Eels, the island of Ely famous for,. 
103 
Election of a Prior of Selborne, 335 
Encaustic tiles at Selborne, 347 
Esculent swallow, description of the, 
171 
Experiments upon echoes, results of, 
217 & Seq. 
Extraordinary land-slip near Sel- 
borne, 236—238 
F 
FAIR, origin of the, at Selborne, 
373 
Fairy-rings, how produced, 425 
Fall of Selborne Priory, 361 
Fallow-deer, breathing apparatus of, 
42 
error respecting, 43 
Familiarity of birds, 123 
Family tortoise, more particulars 
regarding the, 374, 375 
Fattening of animals during mode- 
rate frosts, 128 
Fern-owl, flying powers of the, 98 
Fern-owl, or goat-sucker, habits of 
the, 393 
Field-cricket, habits of the, 239 
Fieldfares, roosting places of, So 
Fish in Selborne streams, 33 
Flies, peculiar habits of some species, 
413 
Fly-catcher, singular characteristic 
of the, 29 
Food of the ring-dove, 388 
required by gold and silver fish, 
257 
Forest or sand-stone, 9, 10 
