INDEX. 



437 



Music, its powerful effect on some 

 men's minds, 305 ; of birds, 

 depends on incubation, 108 



Mytilus crista galli, a curious 

 fossil-shell, 19. 



Naturalist's Calendar, 407 

 Newt, or eft, water, some account 



of, 68, 73 

 Norehill, 13 

 Northern birds seen in the south, 



75. 



Oak, a vast one planted on the 

 Plestor, 16 



Osprey, or sea-eagle, where shot, 

 171 



Otter, one, where killed, 121 



Owl, brown, a tame one, 44 ; 

 white, or barn-owl, the young 

 not easily bred up, ib. 



Owls, white, do not hoot, 168; 

 brown, live without water, 1 69 ; 

 hoot in different keys, 150; 

 white, several particulars of, 

 167; fern, superstitious notions 

 of the country people respect- 

 ing, 353. 



Partridges, hen, instances of their 



remarkable solicitude to save 



their brood, 342 

 Passeres, order of, contains all the 



singing birds, 102 

 Peacocks, their train not a tail, 



149 

 Pettichaps, a very rare bird at 



Selborne, 306 

 Phalcena Quercus devour the 



leaves of oak trees, 373 

 Pheasant, hybrid, description of, 



343 



Pheasants, reason of their cowring 

 and squatting, 348 



Pigeons drink like quadrupeds, 

 199 



Plants, the more rare in Selborne, 

 258 



Plestor, the, in the midst of the 

 village, what, 16 



Plover, the stilt, a rare and cu- 

 rious bird, 283 



Ponds, on elevations, why seldom 

 dry, 233 



Poultry, endowed with great dis- 

 cernment to see what will turn 

 to their own advantage, 340 



Ptinus Pectinicornis, account of, 

 370 



Puffins, breed in holes on the flat 

 ground, 79. 



Queen's bank, why so called, 29. 



Rabbits make the finest turf, and 

 why, 365 



Rain, the mean of, not to be as- 

 certained at any place till after 

 many years, 24; what has 

 fallen at Selborne of late years, 

 ib. ; that of Selborne compared 

 with that of Plymouth, 313; 

 measure of, in inches and hun- 

 dreds, from 1782 to 1793, 398 



Rat, whether two kinds of, 41 ; 

 water, a curious anecdote con- 

 cerning one, 106 



Raven -nest, account of, 18 



Ray, Mr., why a superior writer, 

 152 



Red-breasts, why supposed to sing 

 in autumn only, 199 



Red-start, moves its tail horizon- 

 tally, ] 98 ; its singularities, 

 201 



