INDEX 375 



woodcock, 113; of willow-wren, 124 ; of white owl, 125 ; of house-martin, 

 128, 131, 140; of wheatear, 134; of swallow, 136, 139, 140; of sand- 

 martin, 142, 330; of swift, 145; of missel-thrush, 152; of chaffinch, 

 wren and martin, 214; of rook, 322; of thrush, 322 ; of wasps, 341. 



Newhaven, water-ousel at, no. 



Newlyn, Henry, 308. 



NEWT, or eft, water, some account of, 41, 44. 



great crested, 47. 



Newton Valence, i ; and Selborne, relative heights of, 221. 



Newton, Prof. Alfred, his Life of Gilbert White, ix note ; on White and 

 Hester Mulso, xii ; his notes to Bell's edition of White's Selborne, xxx ; 

 his Dictionary of Birds, art. Migration, xxxi note ; on woodcock carrying 

 its young, 70 note ; on cuckoo, 103 note ; on peregrine falcon, 216 note ; 

 on hen-harrier, 326 note. 



Nich. de Cantia, 299, 300. 



Nightingale, a summer migrant, 38, 94 ; cry of, 82 ; sings in the night, 96 ; 

 silent by middle of June, 98; range in Britain, 116; song of, 118; ill 

 provided for long flights, 134. 



Nightjar, a summer migrant, 38, 94 ; its manners, 51, 52, 329; food of, 77, 

 85, 168, 329; structure- of, 168 ; flight of, 188 ; serenade of, 190; its 

 name of goatsucker, 328 ; and puckeridge, 328. 



Noctule described by Daubenton and Buffon, xiv, 26 note ; supposed by White 

 to be nondescript, 51 ; its mode of life, 62, 63 ; its structure, 76. 



NOREHILL, 2. 



Norfolk meanly furnished with churches, 49. 



Norman kings resided much at Winchester, 242. 



North America, forests and lakes of, 163. 



Northamptonshire, spires of, 50. 



Norton, 260; farm, 4, 316. 



Nose-fly, 341. 



Nostoc, 353. 



Notitia Monastica of Tanner quoted, 311. 



Nun, see Titmouse. 



Nuthatch, or jarbird, its noise, 38 ; its mode of opening a nut, 214. 



OAK, a vast one planted on the Plestor, 4. 



great, in the Holt, 347. 



Oakhanger, 10, 17, 260, 309 ; House, 254, 258, 316 ; Jacobus de, 258, 310 ; mill 



at, 310. 



Oaks of Losel's wood, 4. 

 Oakwoods, 17. 



Observations on various parts of nature, 319. 

 OEstrus, 74. 



Oglethorpe, Owen, 307, 315 note. 

 Oil a remedy for bite of viper, 41. 

 Olaus Magnus on migration of birds, xxxii. 

 One-berry, 185. 

 Oppian quoted, 33. 

 Orme's Head, pigeons on, 92. 

 Oseney, 275. 



OSPREY, or sea-eagle, where shot, 79^ 

 Ostrea carinata, 6 note. 



