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INDEX. 



Country -made candles, i. 194 



Cow's horn, structure of, ii. 112 



Cows congregating, i. 191 



.Crabs used for hunting rabbits, ii. 26 ; 

 man's hand seized by, ii. 41 



Cntmner lake, i. 22 



Cressi Hall heronry, i. 69, 73 



Cricket, eggs of, i. 240 ; field, i. 240 ; 

 sex of, i. 241 ; wings of, i. 241, 

 244, 246; chirping of, i. 241, 242; 

 fen (sec Cricket, mole) ; mole, i. 241, 

 245 ; house, i. 243 ; tame, i. 243 ; 

 food of, i. 244 ; habits of, i. 244 ; 

 to destroy, i. 245 ; nest and eggs of, 

 i. 246 ; chewing the cud, i. 247 ; cry 

 of, i. 248 



Crocodile, structure of, ii. 110 



Crocus (sativus crocus), spring anil 

 autumnal, i. 227 



Crops of birds, ii. 66 



Crossbills, i. 35, 112, 155, ii. 37 



Cyprinus auralus (gold lish, ) i. 203 



Crow, i. 144 ; grey or hooded, i. 170, 

 ii. 124 



Cuckoo, i. 95, ii. 74 ; choosing a nest, 

 i. 94, ii. 74 ; eggs of, i, 96, 102 ; 

 skimming flight of, i. 112 ; food of, 

 i. 112, 123; in nest of tit-lark, i. 

 112, 123 ; reared by Alauda praten- 

 sis, i. 112, 123 ; sings in different 

 keys, i. 127; when it sings, hawks 

 do not prey on other birds, i. 185 ; 

 anatomy, i. 203 ; why it does not 

 hutch eggs, i. 203, 204 ; in London, 

 ii. 66 ; reared by sparrows, ii. 74 ; 

 young of turning other birds out of 

 nest, ii. 75 ; notes of, ii. 76 



Cuckoo, pint, the, i. 49 



Curlew, stone (see Stone curlew) 



Desecration of Communion Tables, ii. 

 206, 207 



Destruction of martins, i. 151 



Destructive frosts, i. 45, 277, 281, 234 



Dew collected by trees, i. 200 



Disease in cattle, caused by (Estrus 

 bcvis, i. 71 



Diver or loon, i. 82 ; gait of, i. 83 



Doe, brought up with cows, i. 191 ; 

 tame, chased by dogs, i. 192 



Dog, Chinese, i. 271 ; eating vege- 

 tables, i. 271 



Dogs, killed by deer, i. 19 ; blinded by 

 cobwebs,!. 189; Chinese, i. 271 ; of 

 South America dumb, i. 271 ; ears 

 of, i 271 ; fed on vegetables, i. 271 ; 

 refusing to eat birds that they hunt, 

 i. 272 



Dove-ring (we Ring-dove) ; Stock (see 

 Stock-dove) 



Dover burnt by the French, ii. 1 90 



Dove, stock, i. 252 ; house, i. 252 ; de- 

 rived from blue-rock pigeon, i. 254 ; 

 ring, reared by pigeons, i. 25t> ; ami 

 pigeons, cross between, i. 256 ; hon.se 

 at Selborne Priory, ii. 236, 239 



Downs, South, i. 152 ; sheep on the, i. 

 152 



Dragonfly, i. 112, 165 



Dress of canons in 1387, protest of 

 Bishop Wykeham against, ii. 206 



Drinking, mode of, in deer and horses, 

 i. 45 



Drosem rotundifolia (round-leaved 

 sundew), i. 226 ; lougifolia, i. 226 



Ducks, wild, i. 23, 35 ; in Woliner Fo- 

 rest, i. 15 ; Kingof Denmark's, found 

 in England, i. 121 ; rearing of, ii. 98 



Dung of cattle, food for fish, i. 23 



D. 



Daker-hen (sec Landrail) 



Danewort, i. 227 



Daphne laureola (springe, laurel) ; 



Mcgercum (Megeron) i 226 

 Daw (see Jackdaw) 

 Daws, breeding places of, i. 66, ii. 57 

 Deafness of Gilbert White, i. 187 

 Death, Black, the, ii. 146 ; the end of 



all, ii. 13 



Decay of Selborne Priory, ii. 21 7 

 Deeds dated on Sunday, ii. J98 

 Deer, fallow (see Fallow deer) ; forests, 



management of, ii 20 ; moose (see 



Moose Deer) ; red (s-'-c Red Deer) ; 



hunting, i. 16 ; killing a dog, i. 19 

 Deer, breathing spiracula of, i. 45, ii. 



23 ; stealers, i. 18, 26 



E. 



Eagle, migration of, i. 120 



Early-breeding birds, i. 89 



Earthquakes in Sicily, i 289 



Earthworms, i. 210, ii. 141 : anatomy 

 and uses of, ii. 1 42 



Eastwick, i. 93 



Echoes, i. 217, 220, 275, ii. 146 ; re- 

 peating ten syllables, i. 217; described 

 by Ovid, i. 217 ; rules of, i. 218 ; 

 described by Virgil, i. 219 ; injurious 

 to bees, i. 219 ; destroyed by inter- 

 vening objects, i. 220 ; a place of, i. 

 220, 276 ; to make, i. 221 ; described 

 by Lucretius, i. 221 ; at Westmins- 

 ter Abbey, St. Paul's, and Glouces- 

 ter cathedral, ii. 148 



Edward II. in YVolmer Forest, ii. 157 



