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INDEX. 



Hirundines, 159, 172, 197, 325. 



Hogs, 222. 



Holt, the district of, 33. 



Honey-buzzards, 264, 307, 407. 



Honey-dew, 357. 



Hoopoes, 40. 



Hops, 353. 



Horse, 333. 



Hounds, 333. 



House-flies, 343. 



House-martins, 42, 49, 115,121, 151, 



164170, 188,269,275,278. 

 House-swallows, 48, 280. 

 Humming-birds, 340. 

 Huxham, his observations on rain at 



Plymouth, 286. 

 Hybernation of swallows, 37, 407. 



I. 



ICHNEUMON FLY, 342. 



Idiot boy, 211. 



Insect-eating birds, 306. 



Insects, or vermes, observations on, 



334348. 

 Instinct of birds, 49, 155, 165, 277 



312. 



Irish Fauna, 201, 406. 

 Ivy berries, 352. 



J. 



JACKDAWS, 80, 81. 

 Jar bird, what, 64. 

 Jardine Hall, 157, 406. 



KITES, 243. 



K. 



LAMPREYS, 74. 



Land-rail, 314. 



Language of birds, 245. 



Lapwings, 163. 



Larks, 60, 62, 76, 138. 



Leprosy, a case of, at Selborne, 258. 



Leveret suckled by a cat, 223. 



Lime blossoms, 352. 



Linnets, 51, 132. 



Lizard, 79, 85. 



Loaches, from Ambresbury, 74. 

 Loon, 317. 



M. 



MAGGOTS, 336 ; star-tailed, 141. 



Magpies, 82, 198,309. 



Marsh plants, 32, 398. 



Martins, 42,49.115,121,151,164 



170, 182186, 269, 275, 324. 

 May-fly (ephemera), 91, 339. 

 Mazel, Mr. Peter, engraver, 74. 

 Meteorological observations, 24, 356 



366, 397. 



Mezzotinto, the inventor, 35. 

 Mice, harvest, 46,53, 488. 

 water shrew, 104. 

 Migration of birds, 50, 51, 52, 64, 



78, 81, 84, 86, 9396, 102, 112, 



115, 117, 135138, 143, 146, 152, 



169, 199, 305307, 314, 328, 401. 

 Miller's-thumb, or bull's-head, 42, 



100. 



Missel-thrush, 161, 198. 

 Misseltoe, its utility, 200. 

 Moose-deer, 111,119. 

 Mosquitoes, 159. 

 Moths, 339. 

 Mucilaginous seeds, why they do not 



readily germinate, 352, 411. 

 Mus amphibius, 39, 399. 

 Muscce (flies), 343. 

 Museum, the countryman's, 40. 

 Music of birds, 279. 



N. 



NATURALIST'S Calendar, as kept at 



Selborne, 367. 



Nature, the economy of, 33, 328 

 Newt, 71. 



Nightingales, 131, 137, 186. 

 Night-jar, 84. 

 Nose-fly, 342. 

 Nuthatch, 64, 278, 403, 408. 



0. 



OAKS, 18, 349, 397. 

 Oak-hanger ponds, 32. 



