INDEX 



465 



Eagle, migration of, 121. 



Early-breeding birds, 106. 



Earthquakes in Sicily, 252. 



Earthworms, 184, 434. 



Eastwick, 107. 



Echoes, 191, 194, 239; described 

 by Ovid, 191 ; rules of, 193 ; 

 described by Virgil, 193 ; in- 

 jurious to bees, 193 ; destroyed 

 by intervening objects, 194; a 

 place of, 194, 239; to make, 

 1 94 ; described by Lucretius, 

 195. 



Edward II. in Wolmer Forest, 263. 



Edward III. in Wolmer Forest, 262. 



Eels, 22, 29; breeding of, 43, 88 ; 

 two species of, 88. 



Eft, 45 ; water, 48 ; larva of land- 

 eft, 45. 



Eggs, in larvae of insects, 48. 



Elder, dwarf, 201. 



Electricity, 255. 



Elk, European, 70. 



Elmer, Mr. 24. 



Elms, broad-leaved or wych hazel, 

 large, 6. 



Emberiza alba (bunting), 387, 390, 

 429. 



Emberiza miliaria (bunting), 35. 



Emberiza nivalis (snowflake), 39, 65. 



Empedes (long-legs), 433. 



Entomology, 56, 80. 



Ephemera (mayflies), 158. 



Eunuchs, 181. 



Euonymus Europaeus (spindle tree), 

 89, 396. 



Eve-churr (see Mole-cricket). 



Evejar (see Fern-owl). 



Eyes and ears, large, uses of, 135. 



Fair at Selborne, 288, 350. 



Fairy rings, 443. 



Falcons, 28, 31, 234. 



Falco peregrinus (haggard falcon), 



31, 234- 



Fallow-deer, in Holt Forest, 24 ; 

 never seen in Wolmer Forest, 

 24 ; head of, spiracula in, 37. 



Fattening of animals during frost, 

 I II. 



Faustina, Empress, 260. 



February, called " sprout-cale " by 

 the Saxons, 190. 



Fellwort, 200. 



Fens of Lincolnshire, the, 55. 



Fern-chafers, 82, 89, 416, 426. 



Fern-owl (see Goatsucker). 



Field-cricket (see Cricket, field). 



Fieldfares, 26, 63, 65, 68 ; feeding 

 in winter, 65, 119; not breed- 

 ing in England, 407; roost on 

 the ground, 68. 



Field-mouse, 27, 31, 40; and 

 young, 132 ; eating nuts, 231. 



Fish, shell, petrified, 8 ; at Sel- 

 borne, 22, 29; dead, why they 

 float, 227 ; gold, 227 ; silver, 

 227; food of, 227; bowls of, 

 with birds inside, 228; ponds, 



350- 



Flamingo, 219. 



Fleas, 153,389. 



Flies, plague of, 252. 



Flight of birds, 1 50, 202, 203 ; 

 crickets, 216. 



Floods in 1764, 150; 1784, 254. 



Flora of Selborne, 199. 



Fly, turnip, 79 ; depositing eggs 

 in hairs of horses, 79 ; horse bot 

 (see horse-fly) ; forest, 135; side, 

 136- 



Flycatcher, 27, 29, 41, 131 ; arrival 

 of, 407 ; nidification of, 90 ; 

 note of, 90. 



Fogs, 175, 178; smoky, 252; re- 

 flection of, 446. 



Food of titlark, 407 ; of soft-billed 

 birds, 73, 91, 92; birds guided 

 by colour in choice of, 407; of 

 birds, 1 1 8 ; of man, various, 197. 



Forest-flies, 135, 394. 



Forests, services rendered by, 19 ; 

 effects of on the weather, 1 76 ; 

 royal, origin of, 262. 



Fossils at Selborne, 8; wood, 1 6, 

 237; oak, 237. 



