384 INDEX 



VICARS OF SELBORNE, a list of, 252. 



VIPER, blind-worm, and snake, some account of, 41. 



VIPER, pregnant one, some circumstances about, 168. 



venom of, 41 ; eggs of, 42 ; said to admit her young into her throat, 42 ; 



fangs of, 169. 

 Virgil on bees drinking, 82 ; on dove, 93 ; on climate of Italy, 105 ; on swallow, 



136, 140 ; on sounds injurious to bees, 180. 

 Virgins commemorated by garlands, 244. 



VISITATIO NOTABILIS OB SELEBURNE, a curious document abridged, 277. 

 Volcanic eruptions and haze, 233 note. 

 Volcano formed in 1783, 233. 



Wade, General, roads of, 89. 



Wagtails, with us in winter, 30, 81, 87 ; haunts and food of, in winter, 87, 95 ; 



their walk, 189 ; and cows, 332. 

 Wakes, the, at Selborne, ix. 



WALDON-LODGE, what, and by whom kept up, 17. 

 Waller of Beaconsfield, a promoter of horticulture, 177. 

 Walpole, Horace, xxiv. 

 Walter de Insula, 276. 

 WALTHAM BLACKS much .infested Wolmer-forest, 14; by their enormities 



occasioned the black act, 15. 



chase, 15. 



Walwort, 186. 



Warble, 328. 



Warbler, see Grasshopper lark and Sedge-bird. 



Ward-le-ham, i, 266 note; King John at, 242; park, 17. 



Warton, Rev. Thomas, XP; Joseph and Thomas, xi. 



Washing of birds, 109, 138, 144. 



Wasps, a pest in gardens, 231 ; and fowls, 321 ; habits of, 341. 



Wastes, of service to neighbourhood, 16. 



Watch-lights, 158. 



Water, cattle frequenting, 18 ; condensed by trees, 163 ; eft, 44; ouzel, no; 



rat, 62 ; shrew, 62 ; vole, 23. 

 Waterford, Henry, 263. 

 Waverley, sand-martin at, 330. 

 Waxwing, 27, 96. 

 WAYNFLETE, WILLIAM OF, endeavours to reform the Priory of Selborne, 288 ; 



dissolves it, 301. 

 founds Magdalen College, Oxford, 301 ; death of, 306 ; obits ordained 



by, 307- 



Weasel (cane), 34 ; preys on moles, 83. 



Weather, its effect upon sounds, 180 ; and corn, 355 ; at Selborne, 222. 

 Weaver's down, 8. 

 Weevils, 337 note. 



WELL-HEAD, a fine perennial spring, 2, 241. 

 WELLS, their usual depth in Selborne village, 3. 

 Welsh name of missel-thrush, 152. 

 Weston, Thomas, prior of Selborne, 284. 

 WHADDON CHAPEL, where, 309. 

 [WHAME, see Fly.] 

 Wheat-crops and hot summers, 352. 



