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INDEX. 



Passer arundinaccus minor (see Reed 



sparrow) ; torquatus (see Reedbunting) 

 Passeres, note of, i. 232 

 Peacock, tails of, i. 126 ; killing vipers, 



ii. 107 



Peas, to prevent mice attacking, ii 40 

 Peat, i. 14, 19 

 Pectines in freestone, i. 8 

 Pelican feeding its young, ii. 149 

 Perch, i. 22 



Peregrine falcon, i. 270 

 Perewinkle, lesser, i. 226 

 Pettichaps (chiff-chaff ), i. 269 

 Pews in Selborne Church, ii. 161 

 Phalsena (gnats) i. 71, 92, 161 ; bats 



and swallows feeding on, i. 161 

 Pheasants, i. 12 ; pursued by hen har- 

 rier, i. 168 



Phryganea (see Caddis-fly) 

 Pigeon, wood (see Woodpigeon) ; 



drinking, i. 170 ; blue rock, i. 254 ; 



eating wheat in public roads, ii. 39 

 Pigs, eating their young, i. 140 ; length 



of life in, i. 207 ; eating yewberries 



without injury, ii. 170 

 Pike, large, ii. 28 ; bait for, ii. 29 

 Pilton, antiquities found at, ii. 31 

 Pine plantations, near Glasgow, i. 188 

 Pitancias, ii. 205 

 Planting evergreens, i. 280 

 Plants, at Selborne, i. 226 ; suffer from 



heat and cold, i. 278, 285 

 Plestor, the, i. 5, ii. 8, 186 ; great oak 



in, ii. 8, 18 

 Plover, i. 247 

 Plowman, Piers, ii. 213 

 Plumpton Plain, i. 152 

 Poaching at night, i. 18, 26 

 Poison-fangs of viper, ii. 136 

 Poison, Wourali, ii. 140 

 Poisoned arrows of Indians, ii. 141 

 Poll sheep, i. 152 

 Pollard-ash, children cured of rupture 



by, i. 199; in the Plestor, i. 199 

 Ponds, on chalkhills, i. 201 ; at "Wolmer, 



i. 201 ; at Selborne, dried up, ii. 12 

 Pope Martin confiscates property of 



Selborne Priory, ii. 212 

 Portugal laurels, i. 280 

 Pottery, Roman, found at Selborne, ii. 



253, 254 



Poultry, i. 233 ; their notes and lan- 

 guage, i. 233 ; destroying a hawk, 



i. 234 

 Prayers for the dead, ii. 186, 197, 198, 



235 



Preceplo-rcs, meaning of, ii. 196 

 Prior, election of a, ii. 199, 216, 218, 



221, 224 

 Priors of Selbonie, list of, ii. 227 



Priories, alien, ii. 181 



Priory of Selborne, at Pilton, ii. 31, 



177 ; in debt, ii. 208 ; property of, 



ii. 209 ; sequestrated, ii. 212, 217 ; 



reduced to a chantry, ii. 236 

 Prophecy of Piers Plowman, ii. 214 

 Puckeridge (see Fern-owl) 

 Puffins, i. 66 ; breed on flat ground, i. 



66 



Pulex irrituns (bed-flea), i. 165 

 Punishment of canons for misbehaviour, 



ii. 207 



Puritanism at Selborae, ii. 174 

 Purlieus, i. 22 



Q- 



Quails, i. 12, 42 

 Queen's bank, i. 16 



Quicksilver mines, men working in, i. 

 106 



R. 



Rabbits, in Wolmer Forest, i. 19 ; with 

 deformed teeth, ii. 25 ; ferreted by 

 crabs, ii.27 ; and cat, hybrid between, 

 ii. 28 



Railings, ronnd St. Paul's Cathedral, 

 ii. 1 9 ; Hanover Square, ii. 20 



Rainfall, at Selborne, i. 13. 73, 275 in 

 Rutland, i. 119, 281 ; effect of trees 

 on, i. 201, ii. 132 ; compared with 

 Plymouth, i. 275 



Rana arborea (tree-frog), i. 55 



Rats, common, i. 34, ii. 34 ; two kinds, 

 i. 32 ; water, i. 32, ii. 34 ; three va- 

 rieties of, ii.34 ; black, ii. 35 ; white, 

 ii. 35 ; brown, ii. 37 ; tail of, ii. 36 ; 

 tormenting an elephant, ii. 36 ; dead, 

 how to find out in houses, ii. 106 



Rattlesnake, ii. 53, 139 ; cannot rattle 

 in wet weather, ii. 1 40 



Ravens, building in the Plestor Oak, 

 i. 6 ; close sitting of, i. 7 ; driving 

 vultures from their nests, i. 138, ii. 

 19 



Redbreast, i. 93, 101, ii. 125 ; tame, 

 singing by candlelight, i. 94 ; song 

 of, i. 170, ii. 125 ; autumn songster 

 i. 170 ; food of, i. 170, 175; egg and 

 nest of, ii. 125 



Red deer, i. 16, ii. 20 ; in Wolmer 

 Forest, i. 1(> ; never seen in Holt 

 Forest, i. 19, 26 ; horns of, ii. 21 ; 

 injuring crops, ii. 20 



Redstart, i. 36, 52, 154, ii. 125 ; arrival 

 of, i. 33 ; motion of tail of, i. 168 ; 

 song of, i. 172 ; nest of, ii. 126 



