INDEX 



307 





West Rother, the, described by 

 Dray ton, 219 



West Sussex downs, varied char- 

 acter of, 234, 289, 293; charm 

 of, in winter, 280 



Wheat, tillage influenced by price 

 of, 40 



Wheatear, breeding-places of, 92 ; 

 among sea-poppies, 93 ; its en- 

 mity to the red-backed shrike, 

 94; its migration and rest, 129; 

 its sensitiveness to cloud- 

 shadows, 132 ; former mode of 

 trapping, 136; now scheduled, 

 .139 



Wheatear-harvest, the shepherd's, 

 128 



Whinchat, breeding on the downs, 

 91; quality of its song, 156, 157 



White, Gilbert, on the charm 

 of the Sussex Downs, 24; on 

 bacon-eating bats, 284; memo- 

 ries of, in West Sussex, 287 



Whitethroat breeding on the 

 downs, 91 



' Wild turkeys," 83 



Winter, resort of birds to the 

 maritime district, 240; in down- 

 land in, 279 



Wood-carving, a monkish speci- 

 men of, 262 



Wood-pigeons, at Cocking, 222; 

 multitudes of, in a beech wood, 

 291, 292 



Woods family, their connection 

 with Gilbert White, 288 



Worthing, mildness of climate, 

 240 



Wren, its winter quarters, 242 



YEATS, W. B., quoted, 35 



Yellow-hammer, breeding in the 

 downs, 91 ; in windy autumn, 

 208 



Yew-berry, missel-thrushes feast- 

 ing on, 226, 228 



Yew trees, grove of, at Kingly 

 Bottom, 226 ; near West Dean, 

 290 



Young, Arthur, employment of 

 oxen recorded by, 34 



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