INDEX 



COMPILED BY MRS. E. HUBBARD 



Adder, sheep bitten by, 96 ; 

 spring colouring, 97 ; choice of 

 a resting-place, 98 ; protective 

 character of colouring, 98 ; feel- 

 ing with regard to, 99 ; tame, 

 99, 100 



Adur, scenery west of the, 217- 

 237 ; east of the, 232 



Alehouse, village, singing in, 146 



Alfred the Great, his traditional 

 connection with Ditchling, 187 



Alfriston, abundance of swallows 

 at, 185; tame Cape Horned 

 Owl at, 272; church at, 294 



Andredsweald, forest of, 215 



"Angel's Hair," 234 



Anne of Cleves, her connection 

 with Ditchling, 187 



Anvil, thrushes', for breaking 

 snail-shells on, 60 



Arun, scenery west of the, 217 ; 

 peewits in the valley of, 243 



Ashdown Forest, black grouse 

 formerly present in, 84 



Asilus, its habits, 62 



Associations, early, their perman- 

 ence, 264 



Autumn, sudden appearance of, 

 on the downs, 205; vanishing 

 of insect-life in, 209 ; clearness 

 of air in, 214, 215 ; annual 

 movement of birds in, 238 



Avifauna, extirpation of species 

 of, in Sussex, 81 



Bacon, bats eating, 283, 284 

 Badger, on the downs, 74 ; his 



great strength, 75, his "earth," 

 75 

 Barrows at Kingly Vale, 227 

 Bats, their sensitiveness of wing, 



187 

 Beachy Head, impoverished bird- 

 life on, 81 

 Beautiful, tlie, theories of, 26 

 Beech leaves, fallen, seen against 

 junipers, 236; fluttering over 

 snow, 293 

 Beech wood in autumn, 231 ; in 



winter, 291 

 Beer, a beer-drinker's denuncia- 

 tion of, 107 

 Bell of Chichester Cathedral, 253 

 Bepton Hill, named but name- 

 less, 282 

 Bindweed among the corn, 32 

 Binocular, its magical powers, 292 

 Birds, sky watched by, 27 ; those 

 now extinct in Sussex, 81 ; 

 smaller, of the downs, 91 ; their 

 various music, 143 ; on Mount 

 Harry, 176; autumnal abund- 

 ance on the west downs, 217, 

 218 ; their love of elder- ben ies, 

 226; wintering in the maritime 

 district, 240 

 Birds of Sussex, by William 



Borrer, 156 

 Bird-boy's story of s-wifts, 202 

 Bird-catchers, wheatear catching 



by, 138, 139 

 Birdham or Bridham, 241 

 Bishopstone, a \'isit to, 12, 13 



299 



