368 INDEX 



GURDON, SIR ADAM, who and what, 261 ; where, a man of rank and property, 

 261 ; his wives, 262 ; builds an oratory in his manor-house, 263 ; grants 

 the Plestor to the Priory of Selborne, 264 ; becomes warden of Wolmer- 

 forest, 266 ; a distringas against him, 267 ; enlists troops for the king, 

 267 ; his advanced age, 268 ; his seal and arms, 268 ; seems to have had 

 no concern with the Knights Templars, 272. 



bailiff of Alton, 261 f. 



Gurdon-manor, 265, 316. 



Gyfford, W., 304. 



GYPSIES, some particulars about, 156. 



Haggard falcon, see Peregrine falcon. 



HAILSTORM at Selborne in summer 1784, 234. 



Hales, Dr. Stephen, xii, xv ; quoted, 12 note, 154 note, 164, 224 note, 231 

 note. 



Halyborne, Thomas, 284. 



Hamilton, 89. 



Hammond, John, rector of Hetlegh, 290. 



Hampshire meanly furnished with churches, 49 ; manufacture of rushlights 

 in, 158. 



HANGER, the, i. 



Hard-billed and soft-billed birds, 69. 



Hares, white or Scotch, 61 ; species of, 61 note ; in snowy weather, 226. 



Harteley Mauduit, i. 



Harting, his edition of White's Selborne, xxx ; on whinchat, 81 note; on 

 food of woodcock, 101 note; on cuckoo, 103 note ; on great bustard, 

 no note ; on migration of hawks, 114 note ; on duck found at Trotton, 

 116 note; on grosbeak, 333 note. 



Harvest-bug, 73. 



mouse, 23 and note; description of, 27 ; further particulars of, 31 ; pre- 

 hensile tail of, 32 note; name for, 35; devoured by dogs, refused by 

 cats, 84. 



HASEL WYCH, 4. 



Hasselquist on short-winged birds in the channel, 31 ; on migration of black- 

 winged stilt, 203. 



Hawfinch, see Grosbeak. 



HAWK, SPARROW, the dread of housewives, 90. 



breeding in old crows' nests, 83 ; killed by brood-hens, 192. 



Hawkley, closes in, 255 ; (Hocheleye), 267. 



HAWKLEY-HANGER, the amazing fall thereof, 194. 



Hawks, castings of, 25; migration of, 114 note; and swallows, 138; and 

 swifts, 148; and cuckoos, 151 and note ; spring migration of, 151 note; 

 notes of, 190 ; seizing of prey by, 326. 



Haws, failure of, 28 ; food for birds, 28. 



HAZE, or smokey fog, the peculiar one which prevailed in summer 1783, 232. 



Heat in March, effects of, 173. 



HEATH-FIRES, why lighted up, 16. 



Hedge-sparrow, 83 ; its food in winter, 87 ; does not migrate, 95 ; its time of 

 singing, 97 ; and cuckoo, 104. 



HEDGEHOG, some account of, 63. 



Hedlegh, i, 12. 



HELIOTROPES, summer and winter, how to make them, 192. 



