INDEX 373 



Mahomet on purification, 109. 



Makerel, Thomas, 263. 



MALM, black, what sort of soil, 2 ; ditto, white, 3. 



Man, his food varies with climate, 183. 



MARCH, the month of, two wonderfully hot days in March, 1777 ; the effects 

 of that heat, 173. 



Marcley Hill a deceitful ground, 194. 



Market at Selborne, 265. 



Markwick's Calendar and Observations, 319 note. 



Marsh, cinquefoil, 185. 



Marsham of Stratton, 347. 



MARTIN, HOUSE, seen very late, 49 ; house, a monography of, 128; sand or 

 bank, a monography of, 141 ; house, farther circumstances about, 206 ; 

 house, more particulars concerning, 212. 



nest of, 129, 214 ; late departures of, 25, 28, 49, 78, 212 ; late broods of, 81, 



212 ; late arrival of, 67, 84 ; a summer bird of passage, 38, 94 ; migration of, 

 xxxv, 22, 53, 77, 78, in ; young of, 22 ; feeding of young of, 70; perse- 

 cuted by sparrows, 67, 129 ; mating of, 67 ; its note, 99 ; flies with other 

 birds, 22 ; search for torpid, 206 ; secret dormitories of, 213. 



sand, a summer migrant, 38, 94 ; history of, 141 ; flight of, 189 ; holes 



of, searched in March, 330. 



POPE, his bull touching the revoking of certain things alienated from 



the Priory of Selborne, 286. 



Mating of birds, 67. 



Mauduit-hatch, 17. 



Mauduit's wood, 258. 



May-fly, 56, 339. 



Maycock, Sampson, 285. 



Mayewe, Richard, 302, 306. 



Mazel, the engraver, 43. 



Meadow-pipit, or titlark, song of, 80 and note, 97 ; cuckoo in nest of, 116. 



Melolontha fullo, 54. 



Memory, comparing animals by, 71. 



MERCATU, de, et feria de Seleburne, a mistake in Bishop Tanner, 316. 



Merton College, a haunt of swallows, 53. 



Meteor, White's use of the word, 225 note. 



Mezereon, 186. 



MICE, small red, nondescript, 27 ; one of their nests described, 27 ; some 

 farther account of, 31. 



(harvest mice), devoured by dogs, refused by cats, 84. 



Midges, swarms of, 343. 



MIGRATION, actual, somewhat.like it, 53 ; at Gibraltar, ocular demonstration 

 of, 115. 



of redwing, 113, 116, 118; of fieldfare, 60, 112, 113, 116; of ring ousel, 



47, 49, 50, 58, 60, 69, 78, no, 116, 135 ; of redstart, 106 ; of wheatear, 30, 

 134 ; of nightingale, 116, 134 ; of whitethroat, 106, 134 ; of blackcap, 104, 

 106,134; of sedge-warbler, 1 06 ; of oriole, 114; of flycatcher, 86, 106 ; of 

 swallow, 29, 53, 106, in, 131, 136, 151, 331 ; of swallow, Adanson on, 

 80; of swallow, doubted, 174 ; swallows in hiding, 22 ; swallows haunting 

 water, 216 ; of swallows and martins, 53, 77 ; of martin, 77, 78, 84, in, 

 114, 128, 130, 131, 144, 174, 206, 212, 331 ; of sand-martin, 144,331 ; of 

 hirundines, 114, 134, 151, 175 ; of chaffingh, 30 ; of snow-bunting, 61 ; of 



