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INDEX. 



Owls, structure of wing-feathers of, i. 



149, note. 

 , their habits of feeding, &c., i. 



148, 484. 

 Oxen, fatal effects on, from eating 



leaves and twigs of the yew-tree, i. 



292, ii. 260. 



Paradyss ruede, i. 362. 

 Parliamentary acts respecting Wolrner 



forest, i. 312. 



Parsonage of Selborne leased, i. 364. 

 Partial frost, i. 476. 

 Partridge, solicitude for its young, i. 



429. 

 Passus Decimus of Piers Plowman, 



extract from, i. 339. 

 Peacock, tail of, its true position, i. 



92 



Peat cut in Wolmer forest, ii. 279. 

 Pennant, Thomas, letters from Gilbert 



White to, i. 1-112. 

 Peregrine falcon shot near Wolrner 



forest, i. 253. 



Pettichaps, remarks on the, i. 252. 

 Phal&na quercus, damage done to oaks 



by, i. 456. 

 Pheasant, description of a hybrid, i. 



430, 485. 



Phenomena in 1783, i. 271, 485. 

 Philip the Hardy, i. 314. 

 Piers Plowman, the clergy ridiculed 



by, i. 338. 



Pigeon, house-, origin of, i. 109. 

 Pigeon -hawk, ii. 240. 

 Pigeons attacked by owls, i. 82. 

 Pink, Mr., anecdote of, ii. 156. 

 Plants found at Selborne, i. 217, ii. 



369. 

 , various times of flowering, i. 



219. 



and animals, Mr. Banks's collec- 

 tion of, ii. 99. 

 Plestor, the, i. 5, 310. 

 Poems, i. 499. 

 Ponds in Wolmer forest named after 



extinct animals, i. 23, note. 

 Pope Innocent VIII., bull issued by, 



i. 359. 



Pope Martin, bull issued by, i. 337. 

 Population of Selborne, i. 13, 14. 

 Portland, Duke of, ii. 295. 

 Position of the church, i. 290. 

 Pottery, Roman, found at Blackmoor, 



ii. 380. 



Poultry, sagacity shown by, i. 427. 

 Preceptores and preceptorium, mean- 

 ing of, i. 320. 



Preceptories in Southampton, i. 317. 



Prediction, remarkable, concerning re- 

 ligious houses, i. 339. 



Prettejohn, Mr., on Roman - British 

 remains found at Selborne, ii. 378, 

 385. 



Prior, dispute about the election of a, 

 i. 345. 



, forms respecting the choosing 

 of a, i. 323, 377. 



Priors, list of the, of Selborne priory 

 i. 353. 



Priory of Selborne, i. 299, 375. 



, impropriation of the, i. 355. 



lands leased out, i. 362. 



, privileges and immunities en- 

 joyed by the, i. 366. 



, the, a source of prosperity to 



Selborne, i. 373. 



, Wayneflete endeavours to re- 

 form the, i. 354. 



Ptinus pectinicornis , damage done to 

 furniture by, i. 453. 



Puckeridge, cause of, i. 439, ii. 213, 

 216, 250. 



Quadrupeds, observations on, i. 448. 

 Quail, tridactyl, from Madagascar, 

 ii. 6. 



Eabbits, finest turf made by, i. 448. 

 Rain, measurement of, i. 12, 488, 



ii. 167, 173, 176, 178, 194, 206. 

 Rainbow, on the (poem), i. 502, ii. 



147, 149. 



Rapacity of birds of prey, i. 434. 

 Raven-tree, the, i. 6. 

 Ray, Mr., epitaph of, ii. 223. 

 Redbreast, song of, i. 101. 

 Redshank, spotted, i. 59, note. 

 Redstart, its song and habits, i. 103. 

 Redwings breed in Sweden, i. 134. 

 Reed-thrush of Latham, ii. 9, note. 

 Reflection of fog, i. 477. 

 Register, Beaufort's, i. 334, 336. 



, Waynflete's, extracts from, i. 



341-349. 

 Registers of Gilbert White's familv, 



ii. 95. 



Relics of Selborne priory, i. 370. 

 Religious, military orders of the, i. 316. 



houses embarrassed, i. 333. 



, remarkable prediction con- 

 cerning, i. 339. 



orders, dissensions between, i. 31 7. 

 Renovation of leaves, i. 470. 

 Reptilia, species of, at Selborne, i. 53, 



ii.366. 



