382 INDEX 



SWALLOW, the house or chimney, a monography of, 136, 151 ; more particu- 

 lars about, 216. 



supposed torpidity of, 21, 22, 114, 121, 174; young broods of, 22; 



migration of, 22, 30, 38, 53, 77, 94, in, 136, 331 ; retiring under water, 

 28; on the Thames, 28, 31; early arrival of, 67, 105, 106, 174; Adan- 

 son on migration of, 80 ; sexes of, 82 ; late song of, 97, 103 ; sings as 

 it flies, 99 ; number of broods of, 148 ; flight of, 189 ; shrill alarm of, 

 190; supposed attachment to water, 215. 



Swallows increase as summer advances, 101 ; friendly interposition of, 127 ; 

 and swifts, no rivalry between, 108 ; and hawk, 123; and dipterous 

 insects, 127. 



S warn mer dam on frogs, 40. 



Swan turns white the second year, and breeds the third, 83 ; migration of, 

 96, 115 note. 



Sweden, number of birds in, 86. 



Swedish name of swallow, 136 ; of swift, 150. 



SWIFT, or black martin, a monography of, 145 ; the same number usually 

 seems to return to the same place, 182 ; more circumstances about, 207. 



torpidity of, 21 ; migration of, 22, 38, 62, 81, 94; seen late in August, 



25, 77, 207 ; flight and retreat of, 56 ; drinks on the wing, 82 ; notes of, 

 118 ; Alpine, 72 and note, 149 ; constant in number at Selborne, 182 ; flight 

 ^ of, 189 ; late broods of, 207 ; and swallows, no rivalry between, 108. 



Swimming birds, form of, 326. 



Sycamore, 349. 



Sydenmeade, 260. 



Sylvester, Thomas, 309. 



Tadpoles, 41. 



Tameness of birds, 100. 



Taming of animals, 50. 



Tan-house garden, 309. 



Tanner, Bishop, on market and fair of Selborne, 265 note ; on Templars' houses 



in Hampshire, 270 ; his Notitia Monastica, 311. 

 Tanner's Wood, 309 note. 

 Tannery at Selborne Priory, 309. 

 Taylor, Christopher, vicar of Selborne, 256. 

 TEALS, where bred, 13, 17, 82, 96, 125. 

 Teasel, small, 186. 



Temperatures, low, at Selborne, 224, 229. 

 TEMPLE, a manor-house so called, described, 263, 267. 



oaks of, 3 ; places so named, 270 note ; manor of, 272 ; farm of, 316. 



Tench, 18. 



" Tenpenny nails " in walls, 8. 



Thames, sand-martins on, 142 ; frozen over in 1776, 227. 



Thaws originate underground, 224, 354 ; rapid, 227, 354. 



Thermometer, insufficiently graduated, 229 ; valuable information given by, 



230. 



Thompson on food of woodcock, 101 note. 

 Thomson's Seasons quoted, 18. 

 THRUSH, MISSEL, very fierce and pugnacious, 151. 

 its fight with magpies, 152 ; shy and wild, yet builds in frequented 



spots, 152 and note ; its food, 322. 



