INDEX 



469 



Magpie and missel thrush, fight 

 between, 163. 



Mahommedans dusting themselves, 

 116. 



Maiden hair fern, 171. 



Malm, black and white, 4. 



Manor house at Selborne, 286. 



Marcley Hill said to have moved, 

 209. 



Market at Selborne, 288, 350. 



Marsh cinquefoil 200, 399. 



Martins, young, appearance of, 26 ; 

 late, 26, 53; house, 26, 29, 71, 

 75, 136, 152; sand, 151, 418; 

 frequenting water, 419; late 

 breeding of, 29, 33, 83, 86, 89, 

 140; migration of, 82 ; food of, 

 154; parasites of, 153; hyber- 

 nating of, 83, 187, 222, 230; 

 nest of, 137, 139; down on legs 

 of, 140; colour of, 150; sand 

 and house, feed young on the 

 wing, 75; nest of, 155, 418; 

 washing as they fly, 155; do 

 not sing, 154; flight of, 154; 

 abundance of, 154; appearance 

 of, 187. 



Martlet (see House martin). 



Masses for the dead in Selborne 

 Church, 299. 



May-fly, 158, 395, 429. 



Memory, comparing animals by, 75. 



Merops apiaster (beebird), 121. 



Merula torquata (see Ring ouzel). 



Meteors, 252. 



Mezereon, 200, 387, 403. 



Migration of swallows, 26, 33, 58 ; 

 of birds, 33, 35, 57, 6 1, 71, 102, 

 in, 1 13, .1 18, 121, 407 ; of 

 chaffinches, 34 ; of birds, affected 

 by the season, 113. 



Migration, a large, 57; "home," 

 118; at Gibraltar, 122. 



Miller's thumb, 29. 



Missel thrush (see Thrush, missel); 

 bird, 85. 



Mist, called London smoke, 446 ; 

 sulphurous, 254. 



Moisture, effect of, on trees, 

 124. 



Moles, eaten by weasels, 88 j 

 cricket, 217. 



Monasteries, effect of, 283 ; de- 

 generation of, 315. 



Monogamous birds, 71. 



Monographs, merits of, 74, 115. 



Monument to Gilbert White, 268; 

 to Rev. W. Etty, 268. 



Moose deer, the, 69, 76 ; food of, 

 69; swimming in breeding time, 



73- 



Mordaunt, Mr., 24. 



Mosquitoes, 135. 



Motacilla trochilus, 27 ; three kinds 

 of, 27, 49 ; atricapilla (see black- 

 cap); salicaria (see Willow-wren). 



Mother marking, 188. 



Mountains, 141. 



Mouse, 36; harvest, 27; new kind, 

 27, 31, 40; burrowing, 36; 

 large, 36; house, 36; red, dogs 

 eating, 88; common, cats eating, 

 88 ; shrew, 174; field (see Field 

 moose). 



Movements of animals and birds, 

 various, 202, 419. 



Mud inguana, 45. 



Mus amphibius, 27; minimus (new 

 kind of mouse), 40 ; domestic** 

 medlus (Ray) 3 1 . 



Muscae (flies), 401, 432. 



Musca putris (see Bacon-fly) ; chamoe- 

 leon, 79. 



Music, influence of, 232. ^ / 



Muste/inum, 38. 



Mytilus, the, 8 ; fossil, at Selborne, 

 8. 



Naturalist's Calendar, 387. 

 Naturalist's summer evening walk, 



60. 



Nautilus, fossil, 9. 

 Nests of sand-martins, 418; mouse, 



3 1 ; rooks, 408 ; swallow on 



owl's body, 149. 

 Newt, or water-eft, 45. 



