INDEX, 



ANCIENT coins, discovery of, at 

 Selborne, 287 



Anecdote of a young cuckoo, 135 



Anecdotes of owls, 153 



Animals, love of company exhibited 

 by, 1-87 



Antique vase or urn found at Sel- 

 borne Priory, 372 



Antiquities of Selborne, 287 



A.nts, emigration of, 414 



Aphides, shower of, at Selborne, 414 

 emigration of, 254, 255 



Ashforde, the last Prior of Selborne, 

 362 



Aurora-borealis, 428 



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BANK-MARTIN, burrowed nests of 

 the, 172 



Banks, Sir Joseph, on toads, 51 



Barometrical observations at Sel- 

 borne, 268 



Bat, new kind of, discovered, 96 

 singular species of, first noticed 

 by White, 97 



Bavaria, general extermination of 

 game in, 20 



Beans and Peas sown by birds 4 2 4 



Bee, habits of the wild, 410 



Belfry of Selborne church, 297 

 Bin's pond, disappearance of, 23 

 Birds, beans and peas sown by, 424 

 general observations on, 379 



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how supported during the win- 

 ter months, 107 

 infested by insects, 155, 156 

 of passage, summer, at Selborne, 



history of, 48, 117 et sey. 

 of prey, rapacity of, when hun- 

 gry, 389, 390. 

 singular social habits of, 83 

 that sing whilst flying, 122 

 varied motions of, 228 

 various peculiarities in the song 



of, 1 20 et seq. 

 Bishop Tanner's account of Selborne 



Priory, 367 

 Blind .worm, controversy regarding 



the habits of the, 53 

 Bohemian wax - wing, occasional 



visits of the, 37 

 Breeding properties of the cuckoo, 



129 



Bridge, ancient, at Selborne, 366 

 "British Zoology," White's contri- 

 bution to Pennant's, 192 

 Brood-hens, revenge of, upon a 



sparrow-hawk, 233 

 Bull of Pope Martin V. regarding 



Selborne Priory, 338 

 Bustard, particulars regarding the, 92 



