386 INDEX 



Wolmer forest, xxvii, 3 ; Queen Anne in, 14 ; teal in ponds of, 82 ; pond, 18 ; 



its birds, 19 ; coins found in, 19, 239. 

 WOOD, fossil, where found, 219. 



LOSEL'S, its taper oaks, 4; its raven-tree, 5. 



boring insects, 336. 



Woodchat shrike, 60. 



WOODCOCKS, some sluggish and sleepy, 116, 119. 



carrying of young by, 70 ; winter migrants, 96 ; food of, 101 note ; retire 



in spring, 112; nesting and breeding of, 113 ; migration of, 115, 116. 

 Woodlark hangs poised in the air, 57, 189 ; sings in autumn and January, 



83, 97, 103 ; sings in the night, 96 ; sings as it flies, 99. 

 Woodpecker, noise of, 38, 190 ; flight of, 188 ; uses its tail for support, 188. 

 Wood-pigeon, see Stock-dove. 

 Wood-wren, its haunts and song, 22 ; a summer migrant, 38, 94 ; late arrival 



of, 67 ; its song, 99. 



Woods, Henry, of Shopwyke, x ; John, of Chilgrove, xxiii. 

 Worldham, see Ward-le-ham. 

 WORMS, earth, no inconsiderable link in the chain of nature, some account 



of, 172. 



Wornils (maggots of Warble-fly), 329. 

 Wren, though a soft-billed bird, stays with us all the year, 95 ; sings all the 



year, 84 note, 97, 100, 103 ; sings as it flies, 99 ; nest of, 214. 

 golden-crowned, hangs back downwards, 39 ; stays with us the year 



round, 95 ; hardly to be called a singing bird, 98 ; the smallest British 



bird, 100. 



WRENS, willow, three species, 36, 45. 



Wryneck, a summer migrant, 38, 86, 94 ; its note, 94 ; gait and food of, 332. 

 Wych elm or hazel, 4. 

 WYKEHAM, WILLIAM OF, his liberal behaviour toward the Priory of Sel- 



borne, 282. 

 and Winchester cathedral, 243 note; his visitation of Selborne Priory, 



276. 

 WYNCHESTRE, JOHN, chosen Prior of Selborne, " per viam, vel formam 



simplicis compromissi," 284. 

 WYNDESOR, WILLIAM, elected Prior of Selborne irregularly, and set aside by 



the visitor, 293. 

 291, 294. 



YARD, church, of Selborne, a scanty one, 249. 



Year, Natural History of the, 235. 



Yellow- wort, 185. 



Yellowhammer, sings from February to August, 97 ; breeds very late, 100. 



YEOMAN-PRICKERS, their agility as horsemen, 14. 



Yew-branches carried on Palm Sunday, 252. 



YEW-TREE, a vast one, in Selborne churchyard, 250. 



male and female, 250 ; poisonous to certain animals, 250. 



Yew-trees in churchyards, 251. 





