INDEX, 



473 



Population of Selborne in 1783, 14, 



15 



Ponds, natural economy of, 24 

 Poultry, habits of, 382 

 Prediction of Piers Plowman, 340 

 Presentiment, existence of a singular, 



at Selborne, 372 

 Priors of Selborne, how chosen, 326 



list of the, 355 

 Priory church at Selborne, remains 



of the, 371 

 Priory of Selborne, antiquity of the, 



35 



benefactresses to the, 324 



relics in the, 341 



fall of the, 361 



Procreation of toads and frogs, 50 

 Propensity of fowls to perch a dis- 

 tance from the ground, 383 



QUADRUPEDS, observations on, 401 



et seq. 

 Queen Anne at Woolmer Forest, 18 



RABBITS, turf improved by, 401 

 Rain, large falls of, at Selborne, 13, 



14 



Rapacity of birds of prey, 389 

 Rats, young, suckled by a cat, 209 

 Raven-tree, the, and its inhabitants, 



7 

 Red deer, Woolmer Forest formerly 



inhabited by, 1 8 

 Relics in Selborne priory, 341 

 Ring-dove, food of the, 388 

 Rivulet at Selborne, antiquity of the, 



366 



Roche, Peter de la, account of, 305 

 Rock- swallow, discovery of the, by 



John White, 89 

 Rooks, curious proceedings of, 267 



social habits of, 381 

 Ruptures, superstitious cure for, 196 

 Rushes best suited for burning in 



candles, 191 



SAGACITY of birds, remarkable in- 

 stances of the, 151, 



Sand-martins, inferential* torpidity 

 of, 396 



Sand-piper, migratory habits of the, 

 58 



Scopoli's works, White's opinion of, 

 86, 87, 90, 131, 134 



Scotland, defective maps of, 109, 

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Seal used by the Priors of Selborne, 



375 



Selborne a Saxon village, 289 

 church, description of, 292 

 fair, origin of, 373 

 list of rare plants found near, 



225 



locality of the parish of, l 

 manor-house of, 372 

 priors, list of, 355 

 Priory, history of, 305 309 

 streams, fish in, 33 

 summer birds of passage at, 48, 



117 et seq. 

 suppressed by Pope Innocent 



VIIL, 361 



vicars of, history of the, 301 

 winter birds of passage at, 1 19 

 Severe winters of 1776 and 1784, 



273 et seq. 

 Sexual distinction of birds by their 



colour, 132 

 Sheep, difficulty of recognition 



among, after shearing, 401 

 Shell-snails devoured by thrushes, 



38i 



Shower of aphides at Selborne, 414 

 Shrew-mouse, former cruel treat- 

 ment of the, 198 

 Singing-birds at Selborne, list of, 



120 



general remarks upon, 124 

 Sir Adam Gurdon, historical sketch 



of, 310 et seq. 

 Sloughing of snakes, 417 

 Slugs and snails, habits of, 416 

 Snails and slugs, habits of, 416 

 Snakes, singular mode of protection 



adopted by, 74 

 sloughing of, 417 



