INDEX. 471 
Fossil shells in the neighbourhood 
of Selborne, 8 
trees in Woolmer Bottoms, 16 
wood in Woolmer Forest, 267 
Fowls, partiality for devouring 
wasps, 397 
propensity of to perch a dis- 
tance from the ground, 383 
Fox, singular death of a, 383 
Freestone, use and application of, 
LOS TT 
G 
GAME, extermination of, in Bavaria, 
20 
Garden cultivation, benefits resulting 
from, 216 
Geological formations at Selborne, 2 
Gilbert White’s poems, 463 ef seq. 
Glow-worms not always luminous, 
415 
Goat-sucker, habits of the, described, 
393 
singular powers of the, 64 
Gold and silver fish, habits of, 257 
Grange at Selborne, court-leets held 
in the,.372 
Grasshopper-lark, habits of the, 47 
Great speckled diver, or loon, de- 
scription of the, 390 
Grosbeak, food of the, 399 
Guinea-fowls, singular roosting-place 
of, 383 
Gurdon, Sir Adam, historical sketch 
of, 310 é seq. 
Gypsies, anecdotes of, 189 
H 
HARVEST-BUG and other insects, 
habits of, 93 
Harvest-mouse, singular nest of the, 
35» 36 det 
Heath-cock, extirpation of the, 17 
Hedgehog, habits of the, 79 
Heliotropes, simple mode of con- 
structing, 234 
Hen-harrier, habits of the, 389 
Hen-partridges, extraordinary in- 
stinct of, 384 
Historical records of Selborne, 314 
Hollow lanes, description of two 
rocky, 12 
Honey-buzzard, habits of the, 111, 
112 
Honey-dew injurious to trees, 427 
Hoopoe, portrait of the, 32 
Hounds at fault in Hartley Wood, 
402 
House-cricket, peculiarities of the, 
243, 408 
House-martin, domestic habits of 
the, 157—160 
mysterious disappearances of 
the, 259 
migratory or hybernatory, 98 
winter search for, 252 
Humming in the air, 405 
Hunting in Woolmer Forest by 
Edward II., 290 
yee pheasant, description of a, 
394 
I 
ICHNEUMON-ELY, services rendered 
by the, 412 
Idiot boy, anecdote of an, 194 
Insects and vermes, observations on, 
404 et seq. 
Insects greedily eaten by various. 
fowls, 379 
habits of various, 404 
Instinct, singular illustrations of, 
261 
Ireland, ornithology of, by Thomp- 
son, 109 
J 
JACKDAWS, reason for building their 
nests in rabbit-burrows, 61, 63 
John Moreton’s election to Selborne 
Priory, 344 
K 
KiTe’s HILL, singular custom re- 
garding, 372 
Knights Templars, the, at Shelborne,. 
320 
