INDEX 



Phalaena quercus, 429. 



Pheasants, 1 2 ; pursued by hen 

 harrier, 412. 



Pheasant, hybrid, 410. 



Phryganea (see Caddis-fly). 



Pigeon, wood (see Woodpigeon) ; 

 drinking, 89 ; blue rock, 96. 



Pigs, eating their young, 132 ; 

 length of life in, 182; eating 

 yewberries without injury, 271. 



Pine plantations, near Glasgow, 94. 



Pitanciae, 307. 



Planting evergreens, 243. 



Plants, at Selborne, 199 ; suffer 

 from heat and cold, 241, 249. 



Plestor, the, 6, 288 ; great oak in, 

 288. 



Plover, 219. 



Plowman, Piers, 316. 



Plumpton Plain, 141. 



Poaching at night, 19, 24. 



Poll sheep, 142. 



Pollard-ash, children cured of 

 rupture by, 1 74 ; in the Plestor, 

 174. 



Ponds, on chalkhills, 177. 



Pope Martin confiscates property 

 of Selborne Priory, 314. 



Poplar, Lombardy, 439. 



Portugal laurels, 243. 



Poultry, 206 ; their notes and lan- 

 guage, 409 ; roosting places of, 

 409 ; destroying a hawk, 206, 

 207. 



Prayers for the dead, 288, 299, 3 39, 

 380. 



Preceptores, meaning of, 298. 



Prior, election of a, 301, 319,321, 

 322,327. 



Priors of Selborne, list of, 331. 



Priories, alien, 282. 



Priory of Selborne, in debt, 

 310; property of, 314; seques- 

 trated, 314, 320; reduced to a 

 chantry, 340. 



Prophecy of Piers Plowman, 316. 



Ptinus Pectinicornis, 407, 426. 



Puckeridge (see Fern-owl). 



Puffins, 53; breed on flat ground, 



53- 



Pulex vritans (bed-flea), 153. 



Punishment of canons for misbe- 

 haviour, 309. 



Puritanism at Selborne, 275. 



Purlieus, 22. 



Quails, 12, 35. 

 Queen's bank, 17. 

 Quicksilver mines, men working 

 in, 113. 



Rabbits, in Wolmer Forest, 19 ; 

 make the best turf, 422. 



Rainfall at Selborne, 12, 56, 239 ; 

 in Rutland, 120, 244; effect of 

 trees on, 1 76 ; compared with 

 Plymouth, 239. 



Rana arborea (tree-frog), 44. 



Rats, water, two kinds, 27. 



Ravens, building in the Plestor 

 oak, 7 ; close sitting of, 7 ; driv- 

 ing vultures from their nests, 



Redbreast, 108, no; tame, singing 

 by candlelight, 108 ; song of, 

 88 ; autumn songster, 88 ; food 

 of, 89, 92. 



Red deer, 1 7 ; in Wolmer Forest, 

 1 7 ; never seen in Holt Forest, 

 24. 



Redstart, 29, 41, 143 ; arrival of, 

 407 ; motion of tail of, 88 ; song 

 of, 90. 



Redwing, 26; feeding in winter, 

 407 ; not breeding in England, 

 119; migration of, 125; killed 

 by frost, 242. 



Reed-bunting, 113. 



Reed-sparrow, 66, 1 1 1, 113; food 

 of, 113; song of, 1 1 4. 



Reed- wren, 63. 



Regulits non cristatus (see Willow- 

 wren). 



Relics of Selborne priory, 317. 



Reptiles, stinking se defendendo, 

 64. 



