INDEX. 



471 



Fossil shells in the neighbourhood 



of Selborne, 8 



trees in Woolmer Bottoms, 16 

 wood in Woolmer Forest, 267 

 Fowls, partiality for devouring 



wasps, 397 



propensity of to perch a dis- 

 tance from the ground, 383 

 Fox, singular death of a, 383 

 Freestone, use and application of, 



10, II 



GAME, extermination of, in Bavaria, 



20 

 Garden cultivation, benefits resulting 



from, 216 



Geological formations at Selborne, 2 

 Gilbert White's poems, 463 et seq. 

 Glow-worms not always luminous, 



415 

 Goat-sucker, habits of the, described, 



393 

 singular powers of the, 64 



Gold and silver fish, habits of, 257 



Grange at Selborne, court-leets held 

 in the, 372 



Grasshopper-lark, habits of the, 47 



Great speckled diver, or loon, de- 

 scription of the, 390 



Grosbeak, food of the. 399 



Guinea-fowls, singular roosting- place 

 of, 383 , 



Gurdon, Sir Adam, historical sketch 

 of, 310 et seq. 



Gypsies, anecdotes of, 189 



H 



HARVEST-BUG and other insects, 



habits of, 93 

 Harvest-mouse, singular nest of the, 



35. 36 



Heath-cock, extirpation of the, 17 

 Hedgehog, habits of the, 79 

 Heliotropes, simple mode of con- 

 structing, 234 



Hen-harrier, habits of the, 389 

 Hen-partridges, extraordinary in- 

 stinct of, 384 



Historical records of Selborne, 314 



319 



Hollow lanes, description of two 



rocky, 12 

 Honey-buzzard, habits of the, in, 



112 



Honey dew injurious to trees, 427 

 Hoopoe, portrait of the, 32 

 Hounds at fault in Hartley Wood, 



402 

 House-cricket, peculiarities of the, 



243, 408 

 House-martin, . domestic habits of 



the, 157 160 

 mysterious disappearances of 



the, 259 



migratory or hybernatory, 98 

 winter search for, 252 

 Humming in the air, 405 

 Hunting in Woolmer Forest by 



Edward II., 290 



Hybrid pheasant, description of a, 

 384 O 



ICHNECJMON-FLY, services rendered 

 by the, 412 



Idiot boy, anecdote of an, 194 



Insects andvermes, observations on, 

 404 et seq. 



Insects greedily eaten by various 



fowls, 379 

 habits of various, 404 



Instinct, singular illustrations of, 

 261 



Ireland, ornithology of, by Thomp- 

 son, 109 



J 



JACKDAWS, reason for building their 

 nests in rabbit-burrows, 61, 63 



John Moreton's election to Selborne 

 Priory, 344 



K 



KITE'S HILL, singular custom re- 

 garding, 372 



Knights Templars, the, at Shelborne, 

 320 



