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INDEX 



Fowls, wild, in Wolmer Forest, i6. 

 Foxes in Wolmer Forest, 21, 

 Freestone, analogous to chalk, 4 ; 



grows shaky wood, 5 ; its uses, 9. 

 French naturalists, 72. 

 Fringilla (hard-billed), 92 ; caelebs 



{see Chaffinch). 

 Frogs, 43 ; breeding of, 44 ; swarm 



of, cause of, 44 ; migrating of, 44. 

 Frosts, lying longer on bog oaks, 



16; severe, 36, 240, 244, 246; 



birds fattening during, ill; 



effects of, on animals, ill; effect 



of, on birds, in; partial, 445. 

 Fruit crop, 163. 



Gallinae, walk of, 203 j roost high, 

 409. 



Gallows Hill, 350. 



Gardening among the Saxons, 190. 



Garlands, in churches in honour of 

 virgins, 264. 



Garrulus Bohemtcus (German silk- 

 tail), 32. 



Gassendus, quotation from, on 

 music, 232. 



Gasterosterus pungit'ius {see Stickle- 

 back) ; aculeatus {see Stickleback). 



Gentian, 200. 



Gentiana amarilla (gentian or fell- 

 work), 200. 



Geology of Selborne, 4, 8, 9, 



German-boars, 25 ; silk-tail, 32. 



Gibraltar, migration of birds to, 

 76. 



Gill covers of Mud Iguana, 45. 



Gipsies, language of, 168. 



Gizzard of landrail, 41 1 ; of birds, 

 109. 



Glow-worm, 62, 434. 



Gnats on the snow, 407. 



Goats breathing through their ears, 



38. 

 Goatsucker, 55, 82, 112, 415, 

 417; food of, 416; does not in- 

 jure cattle, 416; egg of, 417; 

 feeding by means of its foot, 82 ; 

 anatomy of, 179. 



Goblusjiuvtatilis f<7//A7/«/ (bull-head), 



29. 

 Goldfinch, 1 10. 

 Goldfish, 227. 



Gold-crested wren {see Wren). 

 Golden thrushes, 121. 

 Golden maiden-hair, brush of, 



171. 

 Gossamer, a shower o^ 1 64 ; origin 



of, 165. 

 Gracious street, 350. 

 Grallae, legs of, 69; food of, 125. 

 Graminivorous birds eating vege- 

 tables, 412. 

 Grange, the, 349. 

 Grass, uses of, 1 98. 

 Grasshopper, 213; lark, 41, 49, 



60, 87. 

 Gravel in birds' crops, 412. 

 Graves under trees, 273, 

 Great Britain, birds of, 91. 

 Greatham farm, 19, 21. 

 Green lizard, 46, 54. 

 Gregarious habits of horses and 



cows, 166. 

 Grosbeak, 29; food of, 421. 

 Gryllus campestrh (field-cricket), 



393; domesticus (house-cricket), 



215, 428; Gryllus gryllo talpa 



(mole-cricket), 392. 

 Guernsey lizard, 57. 

 Gurdon, Sir Adam, 284; marriage 



of, 285; rebellion of, 291; 



menace against the English 



language, 292 ; death 0^ 293 ; 



seal of, 293. 



Haggard falcon, 234. 

 Hailstorm at Selborne, 254. 

 Hampton Bridge, 7. 

 Hanger, the, 4, 12, 442. 

 Hares, 12, 244; white, 65. 

 Harvest mouse {see Mouse, harvest); 



bug, 78. 

 Hawkley hanger, 210. 

 Hawk, sparrow, strange, 28 ; blue, 



412 ; ringtail, anatomy of, 179; 



destroyed by poultry, 107. 



