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Index 



Birds in general, 397. 



Birds influenced by colour in the choice 

 of food, 397. 



Birds' manner of drinking, 144. 



Birds' nests, 353. 



Birds' nocturnal cry, 314. 



Birds' notes, 312. 



Birds, observation on, 397. 



Birds of passage, summered, 1 64, and # 0#. 



Birds of passage, winter, 1 66. 



Birds of song, 170, 179. 



Birds, soft-billed, that winter in Eng- 

 land, 147, 165. 



Birds' tameness in the season of nidifi- 

 cation, 250. 



Birds that dust, 185. 



Birds that sing at night, 1 66. 



Birds that wash, 185. 



Birds with young, the spirit of, 207. 



Birds' nest ophrys, 307. 



Birds' nest, or yellow monotropa, 306. 



Bishop's Waltham, sand-martins build- 

 ing in scaffold holes at, 236. 



Black act, 31. 



Black Bear Inn, Reading, 144. 



Blackbird, 66, 143, 170, 171, 172. 



Blackcap, 45, 70, 115, 145, 164, 170, 



!74> i?7 22 4> 397; 39 8 - 

 Black-dolphin, or turnip-fly, 127. 

 Black-down, 5. 



Black game seen at Selborne, 27. 

 Blackmoor, 6, 8. 

 Blackmoor Farm, 33. 

 Black spring of 1771, 454. 

 Blackthorn, 447. 

 Bleaberries, or whortle, 306. 

 Blindworm, 77. 



Blue titmouse, or nun, 148, 149. 

 Boar, wild, 40. 

 Bombylius medius, 436. 

 Bosphorus, 193. 

 "Bostal," the, 12 note, 

 Botany, 301. 

 Botany of Selborne, 305. 

 Boy, an idiot, his strange propensity for 



bees, 263. 



Bradley, a shower of cobwebs at, 253. 

 Brambling-, greater, or snow-fleck, 107. 

 Bramshot, 4, 25, 408. 

 Breadalbane's, Lord, seat in Scotland, 152. 

 Brighthelmstone [Brighton], bustards 



found on the downs near, 186. 

 Brighthelmstone [Brighton], swallows 



found at, 44. 

 Brimstone Lodge, 33. 

 Brisson quoted, 332. 

 Buck's head, 87. 

 Buffalo, 42. 

 Bug, harvest, 126. 

 Bullfinch, 66, 140, 171. 

 Bull's head, or miller's thumb, 50, 80. 

 Bunting, 59, 171, 187. 

 Bunting, reed, 182 note, 

 Burning heath, 32. 

 Bustard, 125, 186. 

 Butcher-bird, 86, 138. 

 Butser Hill, 388. 

 Buzzard, 225, 310. 

 Buzzard, honey, 153, and note, 398. 



Calculus eegogropila, 130. 



Canary, 55. 



Cancer doctress, 80. 



Cane, 65, and note. 



Car ex cespitosa, 35, and note, 



Carp, 36, 144. 



Castration, effect of, 277, 278 note, 



Cat and leveret, 281. 



Cat and squirrels, 423. 



Cat, effect of cold on a, 380. 



Cats' fondness offish, 116. 



Catsfield, 419. 



Chafers, 195, 428. 



Chafer, fern, 133, 144, 428. 



Chaffinch, 58, 66, 140, 170, 189, 190. 



Chaffinches, flocks of, 58, 66, 189. 



Chalk hills, 222, and note, 223 note. 



Chandler, Dr., quoted, 447. 



Cherwell, wagtails on the banks of the, 



174. 



Chestnut timber, 446. 

 Chichester, 88, 136, 186. 



