374 INDEX 



Royston crow, 116; of swift, 77, 81, 145, 148, 182; of bee-bird, 114; of 

 hoopoe, 114 ; of stockdove, 80 ; of stone curlew, 47, 48, 49, 72, 73, 328 ; 

 of black-winged stilt, 203; of woodcock, 112, 113, 115, 116; of grallse, 

 118; White's views on, xxxi, 114; Aristotle on, xxxii ; Harrington's 

 views on, xviii, 114; Belon on migration of hawks and kites, 114; 

 Eckmarck on, 118 ; Hasselquist on migration of short-winged birds, 31 ; 

 of short-winged, soft-billed birds, 29; at Gibraltar, 115; to and from 

 Andalusia, 72, 114, 115, 149, 204 ; delayed by severe spring, 106; numbers 

 of birds leaving and returning, 183; internal migration, in ; lists of 

 summer migrants, 38, 94; list of winter migrants, 95. 



Military orders of the religious, 269 note. 



Mill at Durton, 310; at Oakhanger, 310; at Selborne, 310. 



MILLS, water, the Priory of Selborne in possession of several, 310. 



Missel-thrush, its nest, 80 ; its autumn song, 83 note ; its song, 98 ; its pug- 

 nacity, 151 ; its flight, 189 ; its broods destroyed by magpies, 322 ; feeds 

 on berries of mistletoe and ivy, 322. 



Mist called " London smoke," 354. 



Mitford's edition of White's Selborne, xxx. 



Mole, preyed upon by weasel, 83. 



Mole-cricket, history of, 201. 



Moll's map of Scotland, 89. 



Monasteries encouragers of knowledge, 177 note ; corruptions of, 287 ; trades 

 and occupations of, 309 ; and towns, 316. 



Monastic institutions, growth of, 260. 



Monogamous birds, 67. 



Monographers, 70, 108. 



Montford, Simon de, at battle of Evesham, 261. 



Moorhen, flight of, 189. 



MOOSE-DEER, a female, some account of, 65 ; a male, where killed, 68. 



in North America, 68. 



Mordaunt, of the Peterborough family, 19. 



Morning clouds, 355. 



MORTON, JOHN, prior of Reygate, appointed prior of Selborne, 292. 



Mosquitoes, devoured by swallows, 127. 



Mostyn, Sir Roger, house-doves of, 91. 



Moulting of birds, season of, 148. 



Mount Caburn, 340. 



Mulso, Hester, xii. 



MUSEUM, countryman's, where, 24. 



Music, its powerful effects on some men's minds, 214. 



Mussulmans, purification of, 109. 



MYTILUS CRISTA GALLI, a curious fossil-shell, 5. 



Natele, 260. 



Natural History of the Year, 235. 



Naturalist's Calendar, xiii, xxix, 319 note. 



summer-evening walk, 56. 



Journal, xiii, 48 note. 



Nele, John, 304. 



Nests of harvest-mouse, 27, 31 ; of water rat, 62 ; of ring-ousel, 80 ; of house 

 sparrow, 84 ; of flycatcher, 86, 123 ; of honey-buzzard, 89 ; of sparrow- 

 hawk, 90; of ring-dove, 91 ; of fieldfare, 113, 117 ; of redwing, 113; of 



