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INDEX 



Nidlfication of birds, 119, 131, 

 152, 163, 231; house-martins, 

 137, 231; sand-martins, 152; 

 chaffinch, 231 ; wren, 231. 



Night, birds coming forth at, 23. 



Nightingale, 123; migration o^ 

 123 ; note of, 87, 125. 



Nocturnal birds, 237. 



Nore hill, 4, 209. 



Nose-fly, 431. 



Nostrils of antelope, 37. 



Notes of birds, 27, 34, 41, 103, 

 204; willow wren, 41; grass- 

 hopper lark, 41 ; willow lark, 

 49. 



Noxious insects, 79. 



Nun, 92. 



Nuthatch, 42, 231, 387; eating 

 nuts, 232. 



Nuts opened differently by nut- 

 hatch, squirrel, and field-mice, 

 231. 



Nymphaea (water-lily), 69. 



Oak, large in the Plestor, 6, 288 ; 



in Losels wood, 7 ; peculiar, 6, 



7; bog, 16. 

 Oakhanger, 12, 21. 

 Oaks of Temple, 5 ; in Wolmer 



forest, 25. 

 Oedicnemiis {see Stone curlew), 



.389. 

 Oil as a remedy for snake-bites, 



Oestrus bovis (bot-fly), causing in- 

 jury to cattle, 79, 416, 431. 



Oestrus curvicanda, 396. 



Opkrys spiralis {see Ladies' Traces) ; 

 nidus avis {see Birds' nest ophrys). 



Opposite golden saxifrage, 200, 



391- 

 Oro pendolos, 121. 

 Osprey, 84. 

 Ostrich, the, 1 10. 

 Otis (bustard), 107. 

 Otter, killed near Selborne, 72. 

 Ouzel, ring {see Ring-ouzel); water 



{see Water-ouzel). 



Owl, barn {see Owl, white); brown, 

 casting up fur and feathers, 29, 

 1 34 ; food of, 29 ; hooting o^ 

 1 24 ; nest of swallow on an, 

 149 ; eagle, 65 ; fern {see Goat- 

 sucker) ; white, 133 ; young of, 

 29; food of, 29, 133; attacking 

 dovehouse, 71 ; screech ofj 134. 



Owls, pellets cast up by, 29, 134; 

 hoot in different keys, 124; ears 

 of, 135 ; eyes of, 135 ; flight o^ 



134- 

 Oxen congregating together, 166. 



Oxford, Guernsey lizards at Pem- 

 broke College, 57; swallows late 

 at, 30, 58. 



Pairing of birds, 71. 



Palm Sunday, yew trees carried on, 



273- 



Palumbus torquatus {see Ring dove). 



Paradise Mede, Selborne, 341. 



Parasitic insects, 135; of martins, 

 135, 140, 223. 



Paris quadrifolia (herb Paris true- 

 love or oneberry), 200. 



Partridges, 12, 425 ; pairing of, 

 72 ; killed by frost, 247 ; instinct 

 of, 410. 



Parus caeruleus (blue titmouse or 

 wren), 92, l%() ; fringillagus or 

 major (blackhead titmouse), 92, 

 387 ; ater (cole-mouse), 92 ; 

 palustris (marsh titmouse), 92, 



389. 

 Passer, arundinaceus minor {see Reed 



sparrow); torquatus {see Reed 



bunting). 

 Passeres, note of, 205. 

 Peacock, tails of, 80. 

 Peat, 16, 19. 

 Pectines in freestone, 9. 

 Perch, 22. 



Peregrine falcon, 234, 

 Periwinkle, lesser, 200, 391. 

 Pettichaps (chiff-chafl"), 233. 

 Pews in Selborne Church, 265. 

 Phalaena (gnats), 6"], 416, 429. 



