INDEX 363 



Corn and weather, 355. 



Corn-mill of a manor, 310. 



Cornish chough at Beachy Head, 80; on cliffs of Sussex, no. 



CORNUA AMMONIS, where found, 6. 



Corrodies, 280. 



Coryarich, zigzag up, 89. 



Couke, John, vicar of Newton, 285. 



Court-leet and Court-baron at the Grange, 315. 



Cowper, William, 303. 



Cows and wagtails, 332. 



Cranberry, at Bin's pond, 185. 



Cranes, flight of, 189 ; noisy and loquacious, 190. 



Cranmer, 18. 



Cressi Hall, heronry at, 50, 52. 



CRICKET, field, a monography of, 196 ; hearth, a monography of, 199 ; mole, 

 a monography of, 201. 



hearth, 337, 338. 



CROCUS, the spring, and saffron, their different seasons of blossoming won- 

 derful, why, 186. 



Crops and frost, 225, 228; and dripping weather after drought, 355. 



Crossbill at Selborne, 25 ; a chance migrant, 96 ; flights of, at Ringmer, 135. 



Crown, Wolmer-forest, grants of by, 19 ; lessees of, 266 note. 



Crows go in pairs the whole year round, 80 ; grey, 84 ; swaggering of, 188 ; 

 amorous sound of, 190. 



CUCKOO, particulars about, 38, 56, 94, 102, 104, 109 ; sing in different keys, 

 117-8 ; a young one in the nest of a titlark, 109 ; several skimming over 

 a pond, why, 109. 



small size of its egg, 104 note ; its egg in nest of hedge-sparrow, 104 



note ; egg-laying of, 102 ; food of, 109, 167 ; in nest of meadow-pipit, 

 116 ; Linnaeus on, 109 ; note of, 118 ; number of eggs laid by, 105 ; sup- 

 posed reason for its not incubating, 166. 



Cuckoo-pint, eaten by thrushes, 34. 



Cucumbers set by bees, 352. 



Culver-croft, 316. 



CUMBERLAND, WILLIAM, DUKE OF, takes away the red deer from Wolmer- 

 forest, 14. 



Cundyth (conduit) wood, 308. 



" Cup-shakey " timber, 350. 



CURLEW, STONE, some account of, 35 ; more particulars of, 72. 



protective resemblance of, xxiii, 36, 73, 107 note ; migration of, 328. 



Dabchick ; flight of, 189. 



Daker-hen (landrail), 324. 



Dalrymple quoted, 177 note. 



Danewort, 186. 



Dartmoor, ring ousels on, 59, 80. 



Dartmouth, first Earl of, 266 note. 



Darwin on formation of mould by earthworms, xxiii, 173 note ; on origin of 



domestic pigeon, 91 note; on gossamer, 154 note; on honey-dew, 232 



note. 



DASTARD, alias WASTARD, natural son to Sir Adam Gurdon, 269. 

 Dates to deeds, 258 note. 



