474 INDEX. 
Snow-fleck, habits of the, 75 
Soils of Holt and Woolmer Forests, 
different nature of the, 26 
Song of birds, various peculiarities 
in the, 120 é seg. 
Sparrow-hawks, daring conduct of 
112 
Spiders, remarks concerning, 185 
Spotted fly-catcher, ingenuity of a, 
I51 
Squirrels suckled by a cat, 402 
Stepe, formerly Prior of Selborne, 
343 
Stock-doves, discussion concerning, 
113, 114 
Stone coffin found at Selborne, 
350 : 
Stone - curlews, migration of, at 
night, 392 
winter habits of, 46 
Summer birds of passage at Sel- 
borne, history of, 48, 117 e¢ seg. 
Sussex Downs, geological formation 
of, 161 
Swallows, alleged torpidity of, 28 
anecdotes of, 168 
concealment of, during the win- 
ECE LAY, 
congregating and disappearance 
of, 397 
Swift, details regarding the habits of 
the, 175—I81 
singular anecdote regarding the, 
235 
a 
TAME BAT, description of a, 34 
Thrushes, service of, in long droughts, 
381 
Toads, alleged cure of cancers by 
means of, 56 
popular errors regarding, 50, 
51 
Sir Joseph Banks on, 51 
Torpidity, alleged, of sand-martins, 
39 
Tortoise, death of the old Sussex, 
250 
Trees, condensing powers of, 199 
honey-dew injurious to, 427 
VASE, antique, found at Selborne 
Priory, 372 
Vegetables, observations on, 419 et 
Seq. 
Vegetation, neglected study of, 223, 
Vicars of Selborne, history of, 301 
Vipers, a batch of young, 204 
remedy for the bite of, 53 
W 
WAGTAILS, singular practices of,. 
399 
Waldon and Brimstone lodges, an- 
cient custom regarding, 22 
Waltham blacks, hunting propensi- 
ties of the, 19, 20 
Wasps, food of, 411 
Water-newt, habits of the, 52, 56 
Water produced by trees, 199 
Water-rat, anecdote of a, 76 
Water-rats, not all web-footed, 30 
Weather, observations regarding the,. 
270—283 
summary of the, from 1768 to 
1792, 432 et seq. 
‘¢ Well-head,” description of the 
spring called, 3 
Whaddon, account of the chapel of, 
365 
White, John, a correspondent of 
Linnzeus, 90 
White’s contribution to Pennant’s. 
‘* British Zoology,” 102 
letters first addressed to Pen- 
nant, I 
opinion of Scopoli’s works, 86, 
Ree ae 87, 90, 131, 134 
White owls, peculiarities of, 153, 
154 
rooks, rarity of, 44 
Wild bees near Lewes, 410 
boars in the New Forest, 27 
William Thompson’s ‘‘ Ornithology 
of Ireland,” 109 
Willow-wren, or chiff-chaff, opinions 
regarding, 47 
Winter birds of passage at Selborne, 
119 
