INDEX 385 



WHEATEAR, the bird so called, some account of, 30 ; Sussex bird, so called, 



more particulars of, 134. 

 migration of, 31 ; said to stay with us the whole year, 81 and note, 95 ; 



in winter, 88 ; common along the coast in autumn, in. 

 Wheaten bread, 177. 

 Whinchat stays with us all the year, 81, 88, 95 ; common along the coast in 



autumn, in. 



White, malm, 3 ; hares, 61 ; rooks, 34. 

 White, Ann, x. 



Benjamin, v. 



Rev. Charles, x. 



Gilbert, vicar of Selborne, ix, x, 254 ; his epitaph, 246. 



Gilbert, the naturalist, his birth, ix; at school, xi, 314 ; at Oxford, xi; 



as a clergyman, xi ; origin of his taste for natural history, xii ; his notes 



and diaries, xiii ; books used by, xv ; quotation by, xv ; his history of 



Selborne, xxi ; his death, xxi ; his person and habits, xxi ; his merit as 



a naturalist, xxii ; little interested in current events, xxiv ; charm of his 



history, xxv ; his view of the migration of birds, xxxi ; his preface to the 



History of Selborne, xxxix ; his deafness, 152. 



Rev. Henry, x. 



John, father of Gilbert White, the naturalist, ix, 256 ; repairs roads at 



Selborne, 255. 



Rev. John, x, 123, 145, 190, 204; on coccus of the vine, 209. 



Rebecca, x. 



Sampson, ix. 



Thomas Holt, x. 



William, vicar of Selborne, 253. 



of Newton, 326. 



WHITE-THROAT, some particulars about, 85. 



a summer migrant, 38, 94 ; late return of, 67 ; notes of, 85 ; sings after 



midsummer, 98, 103 ; sings as it flies, 99 ; ill-provided for long flights, 



134 ; its gestures, 189 ; supposed, 215 note. 

 Whortleberry, 185. 

 WiclifTe's doctrines, 287. 

 Widgeon, a winter-migrant, 96. 

 Wildman, a noted bee-master, 160 note. 

 Willow- wrens, 23, 35 ; three species of, 36 ; how distinguished, 45 ; summer 



migrants, 38, 94 ; silent at midsummer, 98 ; nest of, 124. 

 Willughby, Francis, xiii, xiv, xv ; on migration of birds, xxxiv ; visits Anda- 

 lusia, 31 ; on sand-martins in Spain, 144. 

 WINCHESTER, HOADLY, BISHOP OF, his humane objection to restocking 



Waltham chase with deer, 15. 

 Norman kings resided much at, 242 ; cathedral of, 243 note ; feuds 



between religious houses at, 270. 

 Winchilsea, king's transports at, 267. 

 Wings of birds, various forms of, 188. 

 Winter, insects in, 335 ; birds of passage, 95 ; of 1739-40, 32, 106, 113 ; ot 



1767-8, 32. 



Wishanger common, sand-martin on, 331. 

 WOLMER, FOREST OF, some account of, 12, 19 ; how abutted upon, 12 ; has 



abounded with fossil trees, 12 ; haunted by many sorts of wild fowl, 13 ; 



once abounded with heath cocks, or black game, 13 ; with red deer, 13. 



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