INDEX. 



ANNE, Queen, came to Wolmer 

 Forest to see the red deer, 29 



Ants, particulars respecting, 380 



Aphides, great shower of, in Au- 

 gust, 379 



April, 1770, the remarkable in- 

 clemency of its weather, 122 



Arum, the cuckoo-pint, eaten in 

 the hard weather by the thrush, 

 59 



Ash-tree, a ruptured one, what, 

 229 ; a shrew one, what, ib. ; 

 particulars of, 387 



August, the most mute month re- 

 specting the singing of birds, 

 198 



Aurora Borealis, singular appear- 

 ance of, November 1, 1787, 396 



Ayles Holt, alias Alice Holt, the 

 forest of, 38. 



Barometer, remarkable fall of, 

 November 22, 1768,393 



Barometers, Selborne and Newton 

 compared, 314 ; South Lam- 

 beth, 315 



Barragon, a genteel corded stuff, 

 where manufactured, 25 



Bat, a tame one, some particulars 

 about 45 ; drink on the wing 

 like swallows, 46 ; the large 

 sort, some particulars about, 

 107 ; nondescript in 1769, ib. ; 

 further account of, 153 



Beans, sown by birds, 390 

 Bee, wild, account of, 375 

 Beech-trees, love to grow in 



crowded situations, 387 

 Beech, loveliest of forest trees, 12 

 Beetles, buz at the time that 



partridges call, 368 

 Bin's, or Bean's Pond, for what 



remarkable, 33 



Birds, common in England that 

 have no English name, 42; 

 influenced in colour by food, 

 59 ; that fly by night, obliged 

 to be noisy, 266 ; summer, of 

 passage, a list of, 62, 93 ; liv- 

 ing ones shown here, when 

 from distant regions, why 

 usually of the thick-billed ge- 

 nera, 125; of summer passage 

 seen spring and autumn at 

 Gibraltar, 136; soft-billed, that 

 winter with us, how supported, 

 213 ; of winter passage, a list 

 of, 95 ; that continue in full 

 song till after mid -summer, 

 100 ; why fatten in moderate 

 frosts, 117; what sorts are 

 pulveratrices, 128 

 Birds, what occasions their con- 

 gregating, 156 ; in the season 

 of nidification, tame, 211 ; va- 

 rious manner of motion of, 

 262 ; notes and language of, 

 265 ; in general, observations 

 on, 335 ; of prey, boldness and 



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