378 INDEX 



Ranatra, 339. 



Range of animals, 84 ; of plants, 84. 



RAT, WATER, a curious anecdote concerning one, 62. 



Raven breeds early, 99; playful skirmish of, 188 ; note of, 190; raven- 

 tree, 5. 



Ravens on rock of Gibraltar, 123. 



Ray, John, xiii, xiv, xv, xxv ; on slitting the nostrils of asses, 33 ; on lizards, 

 42 ; on lizards of Ireland, 43 ; on sedge-warbler, 59 ; on pulveratrices, 

 108 ; his descriptions, 119; on the South Downs, 132; on celery and 

 endive in Italy, 178; on honey-buzzard, 321; and Derham's use of the 

 word meteor, 225. 



Reading, carp at, 85. 



Reaumur, xiii, xiv; on Hippobosca, 128; on honey-dew, 231 note; on 

 Tortrix, 339 note. 



Red-backed Butcher-bird, 46. 



RED-BREASTS, why supposed to sing in autumn only, 84. 



food of, 84 ; do not migrate, their food and haunts, 95 ; sing all the 



year, 97, 100 ; in a cage, 101 ; hatches cuckoo's egg, 102 ; nests early, 

 99 note. 



Red-deer, see Deer. 



RED-START, its singularities, 85. 



in September, 25 ; song of, 37, 85 ; a summer migrant, 38, 94, 321 ; 



flicker of tail of, 83 ; song ceases in June, 98 ; ill-provided for long 

 flights, 134. 



RED-WINGS, the first birds that suffer by frost, 104, 118. 



taken in hedges by bat-fowlers, 64; winter migrants, 96, 116, 118; 



place of nesting, 112; nest and eggs, 113 ; in severe weather, 113, 321. 



Reed-bunting, 106 note. 



" Reed-sparrow," 104, 106. 



Reflection by fog, 355. 



Register, Beaufort's, 283, 285 ; Waynflete's, 290 f. 



Reid, Clement, on dew-ponds, 166 note. 



RELICS belonging to the Priory of Selborne, 289. 



Religious houses, distresses of, 283 ; corruptions of, 287 ; prediction con- 

 cerning, 288. 



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



Reptiles of Selborne, 39, 42 note. 



Richard, bishop of Chichester, 259. 



Ring-dove, mode of life of, 91 ; young of, 93 ; breeding of, 99, 117; cuckoo 

 in nest of, 102 ; in spring, 188 ; food of, 325. 



RING-OUSEL, where found, 28 ; more particulars of, 46 ; farther account of, 

 54 ; more of ditto, 58 ; breed in Dartmoor and the Peak of Derby, 70, 80 ; 

 farther remarks concerning, 78, 79. 



food of, 28, 47, 54 ; a flock of, in Hampshire, 46 ; internal migration of, 



46, 47, 49, 50, 54, 58, 60, 69, 78, 95, no, 116, 135 ; on Sussex Downs, 

 no. 



Ringmer, near Lewes, 108 note ; birds of, no. 



Roads to Selborne, xxvi and note, 255. 



Rock-dove, 91. 



" Rockiers," 92. 



Rocky lane, 8. 



Rogate, i, 12,, 



