Index 



525 



RABBITS, 32, 422. 



Rainfall, 20, and note, 94, 191, 365. 



Rana arborea, 76. 



Rat, water, 46, and note, 108. 



Raven, 10, 172, 310. 



Raven's note, 313. 



Raven tree, 10. 



Ray quoted, 46, 60, and note, 64, 66, 



70, 71, 78, 104, 292, 398. 

 Ray's superiority to most naturalists, 199. 

 Reaumur quoted, 214. 

 Redbreast, 1 44, 148, 165, 170, 174, 177. 

 Red deer, 28, 40. 

 Redstart, 50, 71, 143, 145, 164, 170, 



"4> 397, 39 8 - 



Redwing, 44, 166, 178, 190, 198, 397. 

 Reed-bunting, 182 note. 

 Reed-sparrow, lesser, 108, 164, 166, 170, 



174, 177, 182, and note, 189. 

 Reptiles, 73, 77, 87, 104, 205, 225, 275. 

 Revesby, 100, and note, 104. 

 Richmond, 52. 

 Ring-dove, 156, 158, 172, 195, 250, 



310, 406. 



Ringmer, letter from, 184, 221. 

 Ring-ousel, 55, 60, 86, 89, 92, 98, 103, 



107, 119, 134, 136, 138, 1 66, 1 86, 



195,225. 



Ring-tail hawk, 274. 

 Rogate, 4, 25. 



Rook, 172, 202, 225, 310, 364, 399. 

 Rooks attempt to sing, 313. 

 Rooks frozen, 452. 

 Rook, white, 65. 

 Rookery at Ringmer, 225. 

 Royston-crow, or grey crow, 1 66, 195. 

 Rupert, Prince, 39. 

 Ruptured children, curing, 266. 

 Rush-lights, 259. 

 Rust balls, 1 6. 

 Rutland, rainfall in, 191. 



ST. JOHN'S wort, 306, 



Salad, 292. 



Salad oil a remedy for viper bites, 77. 



Salic aria, species of, 66, 103. 



Sand-martin, or bank-martin, 70, 164, 



226 note, 235, 249, 311, 416. 

 Sandpiper, 85, 86 note. 

 Saxifrange, opposite golden, 307. 

 Scallops, or pectines, 14. 

 Scarabfeusfullo, 98. 

 Scopoli, Dr. John Antony, quoted, 121, 



122, 124. 



Scopoli on the house-martin, 120. 

 Scopoli on the wood-cock, 120. 

 Scopoli's "Annus-Primus Historico- 

 Naturalio," 117, 120, and note, 122, 

 182, and note, 184, 191. 

 Scopoli's " Entomologia," 117, 185. 

 Scotland, defective maps of, 151. 

 Sedge-warbler, 100, 103, 104, and notes, 



141, 174. 



Seed lying dormant, 448. 

 Selborne high wood, 158. 

 Selborne manor, 20. 

 Selborne parish, 20, 253. 

 Selborne parish, its extent, 20. 

 Selborne parish, its situation, 3. 

 Selborne streams, 5. 

 Selborne village, 4, 20, 22. 

 Severe weather, 177, 181, 194, 368, 



373. 378. 



Sexual distinctions of birds, 182. 

 Shakespeare quoted, 174, 440. 

 " Shaky " trees, 6, 446. 

 Sheep, 32, 223, 422. 

 Sheep-down, 4, 98. 

 Shells, fossil, n. 

 Short Heath, 36, 416. 

 Short Lithe, 323. 



Shrew ash in the Plestor, 266, 267 note. 

 Shrew-mouse, water, 108. 

 Silk-tail, or wax-wing, 54, and note, 166. 

 Skylark, 170, 171, 185, and note, 190, 



195, 225, 3",397. 

 Sleet, frozen, 452. 

 Slug, 440. 



Smother-fly, or aphides, 343, 344 note,^.^. 

 Snail, 440. 



Snakes, 77, 78, and note, 104, 275. 

 Snake's slough, 440. 



