474 



INDEX. 



Snow-fleck, habits of the, 75 

 Soils of Holt and Woolmer Forests, 



different nature of the, 26 

 Song of birds, various peculiarities 



in the, i2oet seq. 

 Sparrow-hawks, daring conduct of 



112 



Spiders, remarks concerning, 185 

 Spotted fly-catcher, ingenuity of a, 



151 



Squirrels suckled by a cat, 402 

 Stepe, formerly Prior of Selborne, 



343 

 Stock-doves, discussion concerning, 



H3, "4 



Stone coffin found at Selborne, 



35 



Stone - curlews, migration of, at 



night, 392 

 winter habits of, 46 

 Summer birds of passage at Sel- 

 borne, history of, 48, 117 et seq. 

 Sussex Downs, geological formation 



of, 161 



Swallows, alleged torpidity of, 28 

 anecdotes of, 168 

 concealment of, during the win- 

 ter, 147 

 congregating and disappearance 



of, 397 

 Swift, details regarding the habits of 



the, 175181 



singular anecdote regarding the, 

 235 



TAME BAT, description of a, 34 

 Thrushes, service of, in long droughts, 



38i 

 Toads, alleged cure of cancers by 



means of, 56 

 popular errors regarding, 50, 



51 



Sir Joseph Banks on, 51 

 Torpidity, alleged, of sand-martin^-, 



396 

 Tortoise, death of the old Sussex, 



250 



Trees, condensing powers of, 199 

 honey-dew injurious to, 427 



VASE, antique, found at Selborne 



Priory, 372 

 Vegetables, observations on, 419 et 



seq. 



Vegetation, neglected study of, 223 

 Vicars of Selborne, history of, 301 

 Vipers, a batch of young, 204 

 remedy for the bite of, 53 



W 



WAGTAILS, singular practices of, 



399 



Waldon and Brimstone lodges,, an- 

 cient custom regarding, 22 

 Waltham blacks, hunting propensi- 

 ties of the, 19, 20 

 Wasps, food of, 411 

 Water-newt, habits of the, 52, 56 

 Water produced by trees, 199 

 Water-rat, anecdote of a, 76 

 Water-rats, not all web-footed, 30 

 Weather, observations regarding the, 



270 283 

 summary of the, from 1768 to 



1792, 432 etseq. 

 "Well-head," description of the 



spring called, 3 

 Whaddon, account of the chapel of, 



365 

 White, John, a correspondent of 



Linnaeus, 90 

 White's contribution to Pennant's 



"British Zoology," 102 

 letters first addressed to Pen- 

 nant, i 

 opinion of Scopoli's works, 86, 



87, go, 131, 134 

 White owls, peculiarities of, 153, 



154 



rooks, rarity of, 44 

 Wild bees near Lewes, 410 



boars in the New Forest, 27 

 William Thompson's "Ornithology 



of Ireland," 109 

 Willow-wren, or chiff-chaff, opinions 



regarding, 47 



Winter birds of passage at Selborne, 

 119 



