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Scallops, or pectines, where 

 found, 13. 



Scenery of Selborne and its 

 neighbourhood, 5, note. 



Scotland, in what its maps are 

 defective, 183. 



Secta molendini, claimed by the 

 prior, 619. 



Sedge-bird, some particulars 

 about, 120, 125, 129, 168, 

 199, 200. 



Seeds lying- dormant, 486. 



Selborne Hanger, a winter 

 piece, 507. 



parish, its situation 



and abuttals, 1. 



village, how circum- 

 stanced, 3. 



, the manor of, abounds 



with game, 17. 



, parish of, of vast ex- 

 tent, why, 17. 



, population, births, 



and burials of, 20 and note. 



, rain, quantity of, con- 

 siderable, why, 17. 



produces nearly half 



the birds of Great Britain, 

 179. 



, why a Saxon village, 



517,518. 



becomes a market- 



town, 553. 

 derived much of its 



prosperity from the Priory, 



629. 

 Sharp, John, appointed prior, 



603. 



Sheep, close grazers, 31 and nt. 

 , Sussex, horned and 



hornless, 256 and note. 

 , some particulars con- 

 cerning, 459. 

 Shells, fossil, of the Selborne 



district, 11. 

 Shingles, Selborne church 



mostly covered with, 529. 

 Sleet, frozen, 49 L 

 Slugs suspending themselves 



by a thread, 101, note. 



Slugs very injurious to wheat, 

 309. 



Snails and slugs, observations 

 on, 477. 



Snake, delights in the water, 

 102. 



, stinks se dcfemhndo, 1 25. 



Snake's slough, some account 

 of, 478. 



Snipes, their piping and hum- 

 ming, 44, 94, 167. 



Snow-fleck sometimes seen at 

 Selborne, 124, 127. 



Sociality in the brute creation, 

 instances of, 287. 



Song of birds, how acquired, 

 226, note. 



Sow, prodigious fecundity of 

 one, 305. 



Sphinx ocellata, observations 

 on, 470. 



Squirrels, some particulars con- 

 cerning, 460 and note. 



suckled by a cat, 460. 



Sticklebacks endure a high tem- 

 perature, 368 and note. 



Stone, free, its uses and ad- 

 vantages, 14. 



, rag, its qualities and 



uses, 14. 



, sand or forest, 15. 



, yellow or rust-colour, 15. 



Stonechat, its migration and 

 habits, 164 and note. 



Stone curlew, some account of, 

 78, 79,80, 110, 144. 



Sroyoy?; of animals, several in- 

 stances of, 242. 



Storm-cock, what, and why so 

 called, 163. 



Suborbital sinuses in deer and 

 antelopes, 72, notes. 



Sudington, a preceptory, 559. 



Summers, 1781 and 17*83, un- 

 usually sultry, 395. 



Swallows, their supposed tor- 

 pidity, 41, 42. 



. , their congregating 



and disappearing, 61, 118, 

 156, 455. 



