INDEX 361 



BUNTING, a very rare bird at Selborne, 30, 99, in. 



cirl, 30 note ; common, 30; song of, 99; common along coast, in. 



Burials at Selborne Church, 249. 



Burning of heaths, 16. 



Burrel, see Fly. 



Burton on migration of birds, xxxii. 



Biisgen on honey-dew, 232 note. 



Bustard, its timidity, 100; on downs near Brighthelmstone, no. 



BUTCHER-BIRD, red-backed, 46, 80. 



great grey, 79. 



Butt-close, 308 note. 



Butt-wood-close, 308. 



BUZZARDS, honey, some account of, 89. 



flight of, 1 88. 



Byfield, Richard, vicar of Selborne, his bequest, 254. 



Cabbages known to our Saxon ancestors, 177. 



Calabria and Sicily, earthquakes in, 233. 



Calculus aegogropila, 76. 



Cambridgeshire, spires of, 50. 



Canaries, how to naturalise, 28. 



Cancer, said to be cured by toads, 44, 49. 



Cane, a weasel, 34. 



Cane, William Henry, vicar of Selborne, 255. 



Canons regular, 257 note. 



Canwood, Henry, 297. 



Capons have small combs, 169. 



CAPRIMULGUS, or fern-owl, some new observations about, 77. 



Carder-bee, 340. 



Carew on migration of birds, xxxiii. 



Carniola, birds of, 70, 106, 108 ; quicksilver mines of, 106. 



Carp, in ponds on Wolmer-forest, 18 ; habits of, 85. 



Carpenter, Richard, preceptor of Sudington, 271, 273. 



CASTRATION, its strange effects, 169. 



Cat suckles a leveret, 171 ; electric during frost, 230; and squirrels, 334. 



CATS, house, strange that they should be so fond of fish, 68. 



catch swifts on the wing, 150 ; and hearth-crickets, 200 ; running out 



for shot sparrows, 323. 

 Cattle resorting to water, 18 ; sociality of, 155 ; poisoned by yew, 250 ; and 



wagtails, 332. 



Celery little known in England in 1663, 178. 

 Chafers or tree-beetles, 117, 336. 

 Chaffinch silent before midsummer, 98 ; subsists on hard food, 102 ; cuckoo's 



egg in nest of, 102 ; nest of, 214. 



CHAFFINCHES, vast flocks of hens, 29, 35, 81 ; hens, more account of, 112. 

 Chalk of Selborne, 2 note. 

 CHALK-HILLS, why peculiarly beautiful, 133. 

 Chalk-marl of Selborne, 2 note. 



Chandler, Dr. Richard, life of, xx ; on lime-blossoms, 350. 

 Chantries, 273 note. 

 Chantry-services, 280. 

 Chapel-farm, 260, 309. 



