540 



Index 



Bilberry, or cranberry, 319. 



Bin's, or Bean's Pond, 35, 319, and 



note. 



Binsted, 40, 42. 

 Binswood, 36. 



Birds' cessation of song, 145. 

 Birds, congregations of, 195, 206. 

 Birds destroyed by frost, 394. 

 Birds, dispersion of, 313, and note. 

 Birds, distinguishing marks of sex, 



187. 



Birds, exhibition of stuffed, 48. 

 Birds, fatter in moderate frost, 183. 

 Birds' flight, 322. 

 Birds, foreign, 120. 

 Birds found in Selborne, 148. 

 Birds, how they swim, 428. 

 Birds in general, 415. 

 Birds influenced by colour in the 



choice of food, 415. 

 Birds' manner of drinking, 146. 

 Birds' nests, 369. 

 Birds' nocturnal cry, 327. 

 Birds' notes, 325. 

 Birds, observation on, 415. 

 Birds of passage, summer, 71, 166, 



and note. 



Birds of passage, winter, 168. 

 Birds of song, 172, 184. 

 Birds, soft-billed, that winter in 



England, 149, 167. 

 Birds' lameness in the season of 



nidification, 259. 

 Birds that dust, 190. 

 Birds that sing at night, 169. 

 Birds that wash, 190. 

 Birds with young, the spirit of, 212. 

 Birds' nest ophrys, 320. 

 Birds' nest, or yellow monotropa, 



3I9- 

 Bishop's Waltham, sand-martins 



building in scaffold holes at, 244. 

 Black act, 30. 



Black Bear Inn, Reading, 146. 



Blackbird, 67, 145, 172, 174. 



Blackcap, 46, 72, 117, 147, 166, 172, 

 177, 182, 231, 415, 416. 



Black-dolphin, or turnip- fly, 129. 



Black-down, 5. 



Black game seen at Selborne, 27. 



Blackmoor, 6, 8. 



Blackmoor Farm, 33. 



Black spring of 1771, 472. 



Blackthorn, 465. 



Bleaberries, or whortle, 319. 



Blindworm, 78. 



Blue titmouse, or nun, 150, 151. 



Boar, wild, 42. 



Bombyliits medhts, 453, 



Bosphorus, 198. 



"Bostal," the, 12 note. 



Botany, 314. 



Botany of Selborne, 318. 



Boy, an idiot, his strange propensity 

 for bees, 273. 



Bradley, a shower of cobwebs at, 

 262. 



Brambling, greater, or snow-fleck, 

 1 08. 



Bramshot, 4, 25, 426. 



Breadalbane's, Lord, seat in Scot- 

 land, 154. 



Brighthelmslone [Brighton], bus- 

 tards found on the downs near, 

 192. 



Brighthelmstone [Brighton], swal- 

 lows found at, 44. 



Brimstone Lodge, 33. 



Brisson quoted, 348. 



Buck's head, 88. 



Buffalo, 42. 



Bug, harvest, 128. 



Bullfinch, 67, 142, 173. 



Bull's head, or miller's thumb, 50, 



80. 

 Bunting, 60, 173, 192. 



