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Index 



Observations in severe weather, 378. 

 Observations, meteorological, 451. 

 Observations on birds, 397. 

 Observations on insects and verraes, 425. 

 Observations on quadrupeds, 422. 

 Observations on vegetables, 443. 

 Odiham, swifts build in a chalk-pit 



near, 242. 



Oestrus curvicauda, 127, and note, 434. 

 Oil, a remedy for viper bites, 77. 

 " On the dark, still, dry, warm, weather, 



occasionally happening in the winter, 



months," 454 



One-berry, or true love, 306. 

 Ophrys, birds' nest, 307. 

 Oppian quoted, 64. 

 Ormshead [Great Orme's Head], 156, 



and note. 

 Osprey, 137. 

 Ostr&a carinata, 1 1 note. 

 Otter, 1 1 6. 

 Ousel, ring, 55, 60, 86, 89,92, 98, 103, 



107, 119, 134, 136, 138, 166, 186, 



195,225. 



Ousel, water, 186. 

 Owl, barn, or white, 50, 116, 212. 

 Owl, brown, 50, 213. 

 Owl, churn, 94. 

 Owl, eagle, 107. 

 Owl, fern, goat-sucker, or night-jar, 71, 



93, and note, 96, and note, 133, 144, 



165, 179, 273, 311,413. 

 Owl s, fern, note, 3 1 3, and note. 

 Owl's flight, 310. 

 Owl's hoot, 196, 197, 213, 313. 

 Oxen will not fatten alone, 255. 

 Ox-eye, or great titmouse, 144, 148, and 



note, 149, 171. 

 Oxford, 95. 



PARROT, 310. 



Parrot's notes, 313. 



Partridge, 20, 27, 116, 401, 402. 



Peacock, 129, 401. 



Peacock's note, 314. 



Peak of Derby, ring-ousels on, 1 20. 



Pease, 449. 



Pectines, or scallops, 14. 



Pembroke's, Lord, horn-room, 118. 



Perch, 36. 



Peregrine-falcon, 49, and note, 53, and 



note, 356. 



Perfoliated yellow-wort, 306. 

 Periwinkle, less, 306. 

 Petersfield, 3. 

 Pettichap, 355. 

 Phaleena quercus, 431. 

 Phlatena viridata, 431. 

 Pheasant, 20, 36. 

 Pheasant, hybrid, 403. 

 Philips's, John, "Cyder," quoted, 319. 

 Pigeon's flight, 310. 

 Pigeons, origin of tame, 155, and note, 



156. 

 Pigeon, wood, or stock-dove, 138, 155, 



156, 158, 166, 195. 

 Plants found at Selborne, 305. 

 Plants, their philosophical study, 301, 



302 note. 



Pleastor, the, 8, and note, 266. 

 Plover, stilt, or black-winged stilt, 



331- 



Plot, Dr., on echoes, 295. 

 Plot, Dr., on subterraneous trees, 26, 



and note. 

 Pochard, 166. 

 Polecat, 65. 

 Ponds, 35. 



Ponds on chalk hills, 270. 

 Poplar, galls of Lombardy, 446. 

 Population of Selborne, 22. 

 Portsdown, 388. 

 Potatoes, 292. 

 Poultry, 398, 401. 

 Poultry, the language of, 314. 

 Priory, 1 16. 

 Ptinus pectinicornis, 428. 



QUADRUPEDS, observations on, 422. 

 Quail, 20, 59. 

 Quakers, 23. 

 Queen's bank, 28. 



