INDEX 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



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Aberdevine siskin, 136 



Adder 56, 192 



Additional observations 261 



Alpine, variable, or mountain hare 82 

 Alpine, or white-bellied swift . . 91 

 Amelioration of the condition of 



poorer classes .. 200 



American animals 97 



American and Siberian plants, ill 

 adapted for our variable climate 248 



Ai/TKrYop-yn of animals 206 



Ants 292 



Aphides, smother-flies, or plant 



lice 233, 250, 256, 291 



drum maculatum, or cuckoo pint 44 



Ash trees 298 



,, shrew and rupture ashes . .187-8 



Ash coloured shrike 101 



Asses 198 



Auk, little 103 



Auks' and divers' mode of walking 213 



Aurora borealis 305 



Bacon fly 95 



Bank swallow 167, 177, 212, 275 



Barn owl 30, 89, 150, 211, 214 



Barragons (a woollen manufacture) 11 



Bats 30, 73, 149 



,, common, or pipistrelle . . 30, 84 

 ,, great, or noctule .... 73, 84, 98 



,, long-eared 30 



Bees, management of 248 



wild 288 



,, set cucumbers 301 



Bee-eater 139 



Bee-moth 290 



Beeches 1, 2,298 



Beech timber much bored by in- 

 sects 285 



Birds, number of British 109 



, , agency of, in sowing acorns, 



&c 300 



Blackbird 44, 105, 129, 142 



Blackcap 26, 30, 88, 107, 129, 131, 262 



Black game, or black grouse 13 



,, hybrid do 267 



spring 305 



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Black thorn 299 



Blindworm 56, 59 



Blue-throated fantail 213 



Blue tit Ill, 112 



Boar , 193 



,, wild 23 



Bog timber 12, 244 



Bohemian waxwing, or chatterer 33 



Bombylius medius 290 



Botany of Selborne 208 



,, philosophic 206 



Bramble-finch 36 



Breeds of sheep 150 



British birds, number of, 109 



,, reptiles 57 



Brittling (slow-worm or blind- 

 worm) 56, 59 



Brown owl . 29, 30, 142, 151, 214, 263 



Bullfinch 43, 103 



Bullhead, or miller's thumb (a 



small fish) 29 



Bunting, corn 37 



reed 129, 131,136 



,, snow 42, 82 



,, yellow, or yellowham- 



mer 125, 128 



Bustards 124, 134 



Butcher-bird 101 



Buzzard, common 211, 260 



honey . . 133, 263 



Cage management of insectivor- 

 ous birds 125 



Calculi in the stomachs of animals 97 



Campagnol, bank * 26 



,, meadow 26 



water 26, 83, 149 



Canary birds 34 



Cane (a supposed quadruped) .... 42 



Carp 107 



,, golden 233 



Carrion crow 101, 201, 214, 251 



Castration 193 



Cats 89, 255, 266, 280 



Chafiers, fern 284 



May 142, 284 



Chaffinch , . 35, 103, 137, 238 



