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INDEX 



Wings of birds hollow, 203 ; placed 

 too forward, 2*04 ; backward, 

 204. 



Winter birds of passage, list of, 

 102. 



Witches, 174. 



Wolmer Forest, 5, 15, 290; stone 

 found in, I o ; fossil wood found 

 in, 1 6 ; wild-fowl in, 1 6 ; game 

 in, 17; Queen Anne in, 17; 

 limits of, 21 ; scarcity of trees 

 in, 22 ; leased by the crown, 

 24 ; soil of, 24 ; boars and buffa- 

 loes in, 25 ; when formed, 262; 

 Sir A. Gurdon, cusfos of, 290. 



Wolmer Lake, 22 ; coins found 

 in, 23. 



Wolvemere (see Wolmer Lake). 



Woodcocks, 12 ; stomach of, 108; 

 carrying their young, 75 ; breed- 

 ing in England, 119; in Austria, 

 1 20 ; migration at night, 1 22 ; 

 occasional sluggishness of, 122, 

 126. 



Woodpecker, spotted, 42 ; flight 

 of, 203. 



Woodpigeon, 96, 97, 123 ; migra- 

 tion of, 85, 97, 123; wild, 96; 

 food ofj 97. 



Wood, fossil, 16; lark, no; song 

 of, 88. 



Worms, earth, 184; use of, 184, 

 434; hermaphrodites, 185; 

 blind (see Blind worm). 



Wornils (maggots), 416. 



Wren, 107, 110; golden-crested, 

 43 ; lameness of, 107 ; song of, 

 89 ; food ofj 91 ; willow, 49. 



Wryneck, 91, 100, 390, 421. 



Wych elms, 6 ; hazel, 6. 



Wykeham, William of, 152; re- 

 building Winchester Cathedral, 

 264; Bishop of Winchester, 

 visitation of, 303 ; character of, 

 310. 



Wynchester, John, elected as Prior, 

 312. 



Yellowhammer, 107 ; song of, 1 10. 

 Yellow wort, 200, 399. 

 Yew tree, birds feeding on, 32 ; 

 ancient in Selborne Churchyard, 



271 ; berries fatal to animals, 



272 ; leaves of, very injurious 

 to cattle, 272 ; difference be- 

 tween males and females, 271 ; 

 not injurious to sheep and tur- 

 keys, 272. 



-1OSB AND CO. 



