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Index 



Ponds on chalk hills, 280. 



Poplar, galls of Lombardy, 464. 



Population of Selborne, 22. 



Portsdown, 406. 



Potatoes, 304. 



Poultry, 415, 419. 



Poultry, the language of, 327. 



Priory, 1 1 8. 



Plinus pectinicornis, 446. 



QUADRUPEDS, observations on, 440. 

 Quail, 20, 60. 

 Quakers, 24. 

 Queen's bank, 28. 



RABBITS, 32, 440. 



Rainfall, 20, and note, 95, 196, 381. 



l\ana arborea, 76. 



Rat, water, 46, 48 note, 109. 



Raven, 10, 174, 323. 



Raven's note, 326. 



Raven tree, 10. 



Ray quoted, 46, 6l, and note, 64, 



67, 7i> 73. 79. I0 5. 305. 4i6. 

 Ray's superiority to most naturalists, 



204. 



Reaumur quoted, 220. 

 Redbreast, 146, 150, 167, 172, 177, 



182. 



Red deer, 28, 40. 

 Redstart, 51, 72, 145, 148, 166, 172, 



231, 415, 416. 

 Redwing, 45, 168, 183, 195, 203, 



415- 



Reed-bunting, 187 note. 

 Reed-sparrow, lesser, 109, 167, 169, 



172, 177, 183, 187, and note, 194. 

 Reptiles, 74, 78, 88, 105, 210, 232, 



286. 



Revesby, 100, and note, 105. 

 Richmond, 52. 

 Ring-dove, 158, 160, 174, 200, 259, 



324, 424. 



Ringmer, letter from, 189, 227. 

 Ring-ousel, 55, 61, 87, 90, 93, 99, 



105, 108, 121, 136, 138, 140, 168, 



191, 202, 232. 

 Ring-tail hawk, 285. 

 Rogate, 4, 25. 



Rook, 174, 207, 232, 323, 380, 417. 

 Rooks attempt to sing, 326. 

 Rooks frozen, 470. 

 Rook, white, 66. 

 Rookery at Ringmer, 232. 

 Royston-crow, or grey crow, 168, 



200. 



Rupert, Prince, 40. 



Ruptured children, curing, 276. 



Rush-lights, 269. 



Rust balls, 1 6. 



Rutland, rainfall in, 196. 



ST. JOHN'S wort, 319. 



Salad, 305. 



Salad oil a remedy for viper bites, 



78. 



Salicaria, species of, 67, 105. 

 Sand-martin, or bank-martin, 7 2 > 



166 note, 234, 243, 258, 324, 434. 

 Sandpiper, 86, 87 note. 

 Saxifrage, opposite golden, 320. 

 Scallops, or pectines, 14. 

 Scarabaus fnllo, 99. 

 Scopoli, Dr. John Antony, quoted, 



123, 124, 126. 



Scopoli on the house-martin, 122. 

 Scopoli on the wood-cock, 122. 

 Scopoli's " Annus-Primus Historico- 

 Naturalis," 119, 122, and note, 



124, 187, and note, 189, 196. 

 Scopoli's " Entomologia," 119, 190. 

 Scotland, defective maps of, 153. 

 Sedge-warbler, 100, 105, and notes, 



143. 177- 



Seed lying dormant, 466. 

 Selborne high wood, i6p. 



