Population of Selborne in 1783, 14, 
15 
Ponds, natural economy of, 24 
Poultry, habits of, 382 
Prediction of Piers Plowman, 340 
Presentiment, existence of a singular, 
at Selborne, 372 
Priors of Selborne, how chosen, 326 
list of the, 355 
Priory church at Selborne, remains 
of the, 371 
Priory of Selborne, antiquity of the, 
305 
benefactresses to the, 324 
relics in the, 341 
fall of the, 361 
Procreation of toads and frogs, 50 
Propensity of fowls to perch a dis- 
tance from the ground, 383 
Q 
QUADRUPEDS, observations on, 401 
et seg. 
(ueen Anne at Woolmer Forest, 18 
R 
RABBITS, turf improved by, 401 
Rain, large falls of, at Selborne, 13, 
14 
Rapacity of birds of prey, 389 
Rats, young, suckled by a cat, 209 
Raven-tree, the, and its inhabitants, 
7 
Red deer, Woolmer Forest formerly 
inhabited by, 18 
Relics in Selborne priory, 341 
Ring-dove, food of the, 388 
Rivulet at Selborne, antiquity of the, 
366 
Roche, Peter de la, account of, 305 
Rock-swallow, discovery of the, by 
John White, $9 
Rooks, curious proceedings of, 267 
social habits of, 381 
Ruptures, superstitious cure for, 196 
Rushes best suited for burning in 
candles, 191 
INDEX. 473 
S 
SAGACITY of birds, remarkable in- 
stances of the, 151, 
Sand-martins, inferential torpidity 
of, 396 
Sand-piper, migratory habits of the, 
8 
Scopoli’s works, White’s opinion of, 
86, 87, 90, 131, 134 
Scotland, defective maps of, 109, 
110 
Seal used by the Priors of Selborne, 
375 
Selborne a Saxon village, 289 
church, description of, 292 
fair, origin of, 373 
list of rare plants found near, 
225 
locality of the parish of, 1 
manor-house of, 372 
priors, list of, 355 
Priory, history of, 305—309 
streams, fish in, 33 
summer birds of passage at, 48, 
117 et seq. 
suppressed by Pope Innocent 
WITT, 361 
vicars of, history of the, 301 
winter birds of passage at, 119 
Severe winters of 1776 and 1784, 
273 et Sey. 
Sexual distinction of birds by their 
colour, 132 
Sheep, difficulty of recognition 
among, after shearing, 401 
Shell-snails devoured by thrushes, 
381 
Shower of aphides at Selborne, 414 
Shrew-mouse, former cruel treat- 
ment of the, 198 
Singing-birds at Selborne, list of, 
120 
general remarks upon, 124 
Sir Adam Gurdon, historical sketch 
of, 310 ef seq. 
Sloughing of snakes, 417 
Slugs and snails, habits of, 416 
Snails and slugs, habits of, 416 
Snakes, singular mode of protection 
adopted by, 74 
sloughing of, 417 
