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INDEX 



Fowls, wild, in Wolmer Forest, 1 6. 

 Foxes in Wolmer Forest, 21. 

 Freestone, analogous to chalk, 4 ; 



grows shaky wood, 5 ; its uses, 9. 

 French naturalists, 72. 

 Fringilla (hard-billed), 92 ; caelebi 



(see Chaffinch). 

 Frogs, 43 ; breeding of, 44 ; swarm 



of, cause of, 44 ; migrating of, 44. 

 Frosts, lying longer on bog oaks, 



16; severe, 36, 240, 244, 246; 



birds fattening during, ill; 



effects of, on animals, 1 1 1 ; effect 



of, on birds, 1 1 1 ; partial, 445. 

 Fruit crop, 163. 



Gallinae, walk of, 203; roost high, 

 409. 



Gallows Hill, 350. 



Gardening among the Saxons, 190. 



Garlands, in churches in honour of 

 virgins, 264. 



Garrulus Bohemicus (German silk- 

 tail), 32. 



Gassendus, quotation from, on 

 music, 232. 



Gasierosferus pungitius (see Stickle- 

 back) ; aculeatus (see Stickleback). 



Gentian, 200. 



Gentiana amarilla (gentian or fell- 

 work), 200. 



Geology of Selborne, 4, 8, 9. 



German-boars, 25 ; silk-tail, 32. 



Gibraltar, migration of birds to, 

 76. 



Gill covers of Mud Iguana, 45. 



Gipsies, language of, 1 68. 



Gizzard of landrail, 411 ; of birds, 

 109. 



Glow-worm, 62, 434. 



Gnats on the snow, 407. 



Goats breathing through their ears, 



38. 



Goatsucker, 55, 82, 112, 415, 

 417; food of, 416; does not in- 

 jure cattle, 416; egg of, 417; 

 feeding by means of its foot, 82 ; 

 anatomy of, 179. 



Gobiusjtuviati/iscapitatus(bu\\-head), 



29. 



Goldfinch, 1 10. 

 Goldfish, 227. 



Gold-crested wren (see Wren). 

 Golden thrushes, 121. 

 Golden maiden-hair, brush of, 



171. 

 Gossamer, a shower of, 1 64 ; origin 



of, 165. 



Gracious street, 350. 

 Grallae, legs of, 69; food of, 125. 

 Graminivorous birds eating vege- 

 tables, 412. 

 Grange, the, 349. 

 Grass, uses of, 198. 

 Grasshopper, 213; lark, 41, 49, 



60, 87. 



Gravel in birds' crops, 412. 

 Graves under trees, 273. 

 Great Britain, birds of, 91. 

 Greatham farm, 19, 21. 

 Green lizard, 46, 54. 

 Gregarious habits of horses and 



cows, 1 66. 



Grosbeak, 29; food of, 421. 

 Gryllus campestris (field-cricket), 



393; domesticus (house-cricket), 



215, 428; Gryllus gryllo talpa 



(mole-cricket), 392. 

 Guernsey lizard, 57. 

 Gurdon, Sir Adam, 284; marriage 



of, 285; rebellion of, 291; 



menace against the English 



language, 292 ; death of, 293 ; 



seal of, 293. 



Haggard falcon, 234. 

 Hailstorm at Selborne, 254. 

 Hampton Bridge, 7. 

 Hanger, the, 4, 12, 442. 

 Hares, 12, 244; white, 65. 

 Harvest mouse (see Mouse, harvest); 



bug, 78. 



Hawkley hanger, 2 1 o. 

 Hawk, sparrow, strange, 28 ; blue, 



412; ringtail, anatomy of, 179; 



destroyed by poultry, 207. 



