INDEX. 



CALENDARS, comparative view of 



White's and Markwick's, 449 et 



seq. 

 Cancers, alleged cures of by toad?, 



56 

 Candles, rushes best adapted for, 



191 



Carp, supposed torpidity of the, 105 

 Castration, singular effects of, 206 

 Cat and leveret, anecdote of a, 208 

 Cat, young rats suckled by a, 209 



squirrels nurtured by a, 402 

 Chapel of Whaddon, account of the, 



365 

 Chiff-chaff, or willow-wren, opinion 



regarding the, 47 

 Chimney-swallow, peculiar habits of 



the, 165 

 Cobwebs, extraordinary display of, 



184 

 Coccus, an insect rarely seen in 



England, 254 

 Cockchafer, the, noticed by many 



Greek authors, 68 

 general remarks on, 405 

 Cockroach, habits of the, 407 

 Coins, old, found near Selborne, 



342 

 Colour, influence of, on the food of 



birds, 379 

 Congregation of birds, reasons for 



the, 145 



Copper coins found at Selborne, 287 

 Copulation of rooks, 381 

 Courage of birds in defence of their 



young, 150 

 Cricket, the house, habits of, 243, 



408 



Cuckoo, nests selected by the, 126 

 why eggs are said not to be 



hatched by the, 202 

 Cure for the bite of a viper, 53 



DAWS, the nest-building of, 61 

 Description of Selborne Church, 



292 296 

 Dogs, aversion of, to dead game, 266 



Dogs, remarks about, 265 



Ducks capable of perching in trees, 



383 

 Dusting and washing birds, 135 



ECHO, how to produce an, 220 

 Echoes, Virgil's notion regarding, 



219 



Edward II., anecdote of, 290 

 Eels, the island of Ely famous for, 



103 



Election of a Prior of Selborne, 335 

 Encaustic tiles at Selborne, 347 

 Esculent swallow, description of the, 



171 

 Experiments upon echoes, results of, 



217 et seq. 



Extraordinary land -slip near Sel- 

 borne, 236 238 



FAIR, origin of the, at Selborne, 



373 . 



Fairy-rings, how produced, 425 

 Fall of Selborne Priory, 361 

 Fallow-deer, breathing apparatus of, 



42 



error respecting, 43 

 Familiarity of birds, 123 

 Family tortoise, more particulars 



regarding the, 374, 375 

 Fattening of animals during mode- 

 rate frosts, 128 



Fern-owl, flying powers of the, 98 

 Fern-owl, or goat-sucker, habits of 



the, 393 



Field-cricket, habits of the, 239 

 Fieldfares, roosting places of, 80 

 Fish in Selborne streams, 33 

 Flies, peculiar habits of some species, 



413 



Fly- catcher, singular characteristic 



of the, 29 

 Food of the ring-dove, 388 



required by gold and silver fish, 



257 

 Forest or sand-stone, 9, 10 



