376 INDEX 



Ostrea crista-galli, 6 note. 



OTTER, one, where killed, 68. 



Ottobonus, constitutions of Legate, 282. 



Ousel, see Ring-ousel. 



Outlet explained, 24 note, 192 note. 



Owen on glands of head of deer, 32 note. 



OWL, brown, a tame one, 25 ; white or barn owl, the young not easily bred 



up, 25. 

 OWLS hoot in different keys, 117 ; white, several particulars of, 125. 



young, food of, 25 ; eagle-owl, 61 ; mating of, 67 ; infesting dove- 

 houses, 67 ; hooting and screaming of, 117, 126, 190 ; prey of, 125 ; 

 plumage, casts, flight, eyes of, 126 ; can live without water, 126. 



Ox-eye (titmouse), 98. 



Oxen will not fatten alone, 155 ; and horses poisoned by yew, 250. 

 Oxford, great benefactress to the university of, 275 ; Guernsey lizard at, 52 ; 

 swallows stay late at, 25, 53. 



Pairing of birds, 67. 



Palm Sunday, 252. 



PARADISE OF SELBORNE PRIORY, 308. 



Gardens, Oxford, 325. 



Parental care of animals, 123 ; of field-mouse, 124. 



Paris, herb, 185. 



Parrots use their bill as a third foot, 188. 



Particular, White's use of, 64 note. 



Partridges, mating of, 67 ; dust themselves, 108 ; roosting of, 323 ; artifice 



of, 123 ; thinned by frost, 228. 

 Passeres, melody of, 190. 

 Paynell, William, alias Stretford, 291. 

 PEACOCKS, their train not a tail, 75, 107 note. 



notes of, 190. 



Penkester, John, 285. 



Pennant, Thomas, life of, xv ; on slits beneath eyes of antelopes, 33 note ; his 



British Zoology, 60, 107. 

 Peregrine falcon, 24, 26, 216, 326 note. 

 Periwinkle, less, 185. 



Peter de la Roche, founder of Selborne Priory, 256. 

 PETTICHAPS, a very rare bird at Selborne, 215. 

 Peverell, Robert, 295. 

 Peyrson, Miles, vicar of Selborne, 253. 



Pheasant, roosting of, 323 ; hybrid, 324 ; and hen-harrier, 326. 

 Pheasants dust themselves, 108. 

 Phillips, John, on Marcley Hill, 194. 

 Phippes, Thomas, vicar of Selborne, 253. 

 Piers Plowman, visions of, 287. 

 Pigeon, drinking of, 84 ; derived from rock-dove, 91 ; internal migration of, 



92 ; clashing of wings of, 188. 

 Pigs eating their young, 124. 



Pipistrelle flies in every month in the year, 174 note. 

 Pitch of note of owl, cuckoo, nightingale, swift, etc., 117-8, 

 Pittancies of a monastery, 280. 

 PLANTS, the more rare in Selborne, 185, 



