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INDEX 



Bees, drink flying, 86 ; Virgil's, 

 193; and idiot boy, 172; swarm- 

 ing in hot weather, 186 ; injured 

 by echoes, 193 ; insensible to 

 sound, 194; injured by heat 

 and cold, 242 ; eating honey 

 dew, 251; kill drones, 400; 

 wild, 430; cucumberssetby,442. 



Bee bird, 121. 



Beech, the, 3. 



Beetles, 161. 



Belfry of Selborne Church, 269. 



Bells in Selborne Church, 269. 



Berne, Canon, Prior of Selborne, 

 326; provision for, 330. 



Bilberry, creeping or Cranberry, 

 199. 



Bin's pond, 21; parsonage, 274. 



Binsted parish, 25. 



Birds, beans sown by, 442 ; 

 without English names, 27, 

 219 ; influence by colour in 

 choice of food, 407; of passage, 

 407 ; settling on ships at sea, 

 35; colour of, influenced by 

 food, 39, 86; turning black, 39; 

 of summer passage, 42, 76, 

 100, 103, 117, 121, 143 ; in- 

 stinct of, 109, 131, 149, 231 ; 

 soft-billed (non-migratory), loi ; 

 of winter passage, 102, 103 ; 

 wintering in England, 102; 

 singing after midsummer, 103, 

 104, 1 10 ; motions of, 1 14, 202, 

 414: singing, are all Passeres, 

 105; in full song till midsum- 

 mer, 104; that sing in the 

 spring, 105; with slight notes, 

 105; which sing flying, 106; 

 with a song, 106; some tame, 

 others shy, 1 06 ; breeding early, 

 106; in Ascension Island, 106; 

 of Andalusia, 66, 78, 123; sing- 

 ing during incubation, 107; 

 fatten in frosts, 1 1 1 ; pairing 

 oi^ 71 ; migration of, influenced 

 by the weather, 71, 113; food 

 of, 412; colour of, changing 



at breeding time, 114; thick- 

 billed, 113; transport of, on 

 board ship, 73 ; collections of, 

 contain few soft-billed birds, 

 73 ; washing, 116; that dust do 

 not wash, 116; which are pul- 

 veratrices, 115; migration of, to 

 Africa, 77; of prey, 121, 413 

 migration of, over the sea, 121 

 swarms of different varieties, 1 26 

 sing in spring and autumn, 88 

 drinking, 89; growth of, 161 

 congregating, 166; dispersion 

 of, 196; destroyed while migrat- 

 ing, 196; notes and language of, 

 204. 



Bird's-nest ophrys, 200, 394. 



Black act, the, 18. 



Blackbird, 39 ; killed by frost, 

 247. 



Blackcap, 27, 29, 90, 108, 143 ; 

 arrival of, 407; food of, 90; 

 note of, 90. 



Black dolphin, 79. 



Black canons, 280. 



Black game at Selborne, 17. 



Blackmoor farm, 416 ; curious 

 custom at, 20. 



Blackthorn, 440. 



Blatta Orientalis (cockroach), 427. 



Blindworm, 45. 



Blossoming of plants, 201. 



Blue rag, 10. 



Boars, wild, in Wolmer Forest, 



Boars, fierce, tamed by losing their 

 tusks, 181. 



Bogs in Wolmer Forest, 15, 237. 



Bombylius medius, 391, 432. 



Booby, the, 107. 



Botany, its utility, 197. 



Botfly, horse, 79. 



Boy bee-eater, 172. 



Brambling, greater, 65, 388. 



Breathing of deer, 37; goats, 38. 



Brighton, fall of cliffs at, 26; bus- 

 tards at, 1 1 7. 



Brimstone Lodge, 20. 



