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INDEX 



Ironstone in Holt Forest, 10. 

 Italy, climate of, 1 12. 

 Ivy berries, 441. 



Jackdaws, 52; building on the 



ground, 52, 54. 

 Jamaica, birds of, 115. 

 Jar bird (see Goatsucker). 

 Jealousy in birds, 127. 

 Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 448. 

 July, alleged decrease of birds in, 



108. 

 Juncus conglomerates (common rush), 



169. 

 Junipers, American, 243. 



Kestrel, 88. 



Kings-field, echo in, 192. 



Kingsley parish, 24, 25. 



Kite, eating ants' eggs, 408 ; 



migration of, 121, 144. 

 Knights Templars, Order of, 266 ; 



property belonging to, at Sel- 



borne, 294. 



Lacerta, 45, 392 ; green, 46. 



Ladies' traces, 200, 402. 



Lakes near Selborne, 21 ; in Wol- 



mer, 22. 

 Lampern, 29. 



Landrail, 12, 41 1 ; food of, 41 1. 

 Landslips, 210. 

 Land-springs, 150. 

 Land tortoise (see Tortoise). 

 Lanes at Selborne, n, abound in 



Filices, 12. 

 Lanius minor, 64 ; Collurio (see 



Butcher-bird). 



Lapwing, 1 6 ; movements of, 86. 

 Larks, 144; sky, feeding in winter, 



407 ; white, 39 ; grasshopper, 



41, 49, 59, 87; wood, 104, 



no; dusting and washing, 123. 

 Late springs, 1 24. 

 Lathroea squammaria (tooth-wort), 



200, 393. 



Lathyrus syk'estris, 200. 

 Laurel spurge, 200, 391. 



Leaves of trees, 176 ; renovation 



of. 439- 



Legge, Henry Bilson, 24. 

 Legs, length of, in small birds, 219. 

 Lemna (duck's meat weed), 228. 

 Leprosy, 187. 

 Leveret and cat, friendship of, 



183. 

 Libellulae (dragon-fly), 116, 154, 



393- 

 Lice, of birds, 135 ; martins, 140; 



swallows, eggs of, 136. 

 Lime, blossoms of, 440. 

 Linen clothing, advantage of, 189. 

 Linnaean system, the, 63, 88, 101, 



413. 



Linnet, 34, 1 10. 



Lions following jackals, 127. 



Lithe, the short, 212. 



Liveries, meaning of, 307. 



Lizard, green, 46, 54 ; black, found 

 in a well, 5 1 ; Guernsey, turned 

 out at Pembroke College, Ox- 

 ford, 57. 



Loach, 47. 



Loaches from Ambresbury, 47. 



Locusta, 41. 



Locustella, 60. 



Long-billed birds fattening during 

 frosts, in. 



Longspee, Ela, 299. 



Longworth, J., Vicar of Selborne, 

 275. 



Loon, or spotted diver, 413. 



Lop and top, 25. 



Loripes, 219. 



Losel's wood, 6. 



Love in birds, 1 18. 



Loxia coccothraustes (see Grosbeak) ; 

 curvirostra (see Crossbill). 



Lycoperdon tuber (truffle), 201, 397. 



Magdalen College, Oxford, land 

 belonging to, at Selborne, 289, 

 351; patron of living of Sel- 

 borne, 273 ; founded, 333 ; court 

 leet of, held at Selborne, 349. 



Maggots in cattle, 416. 



