INDEX 



Account of English Ants, by the 

 Rev. W. Gould, quoted, 95, 102 



Adder, life remaining in severed 

 head of, 83 ; its basking-place, 

 87 ; its consciousness of human 

 presence, 89 



" Adder-stinger," New Forest 

 name for the dragon-fly, 132 



Agarics eaten by squirrels, 116 



Alarm-cries of birds, 103 



Alga, an aerial, 213 ; still essen- 

 tially a water-plant, 215 



America, South, dragon-flies in, 

 133; the camalote in, 313; a 

 wasp experience in, 141 



Anax imperator in the New 

 Forest, 129 



Anglers, swifts occasionally 

 caught by, 290 



Anglo-Saxon settlers, a conquer- 

 ing race, 250, 252 



Ants, removal of dead by, 94; 

 behaviour of, towards queen, 

 96 ; caterpillar - hunting by, 

 102 ; vast populations of, 122 



Arum, berries of, eaten by birds, 

 327 



Asilus, a rapacious fly, 49 



Associations, sympathy with 

 lower animals due to human, 

 46, 49 ; memories recalled by, j 

 117-119; value of, in matters 

 of faith, 204 ; charm due to, 

 313 



Autumn in the New Forest, 2 



BANK- VOLE and hornet, 9 

 Bankes, Mr. E. A., his obser- 

 vation of night-jars, 42 



Barrow on the heath, the, 52-56 



Beaulieu, historical associations 

 of, 38 ; a heath near, 41 



Bed does, Thomas Lovell, quoted 

 as to the firefly, 136 



Bellamy, J. C., his Natural 

 History of North Devon, re- 

 ferred to, 276 



Bird-life, annual destruction of, 

 29 



Birds near the Boldre, 6; their 

 silence in late summer, 98 ; 

 mixed gatherings of, 99 ; alarm 

 cries of, 103 : by the Itchen, 

 272 



Blackbird, mortality among young 

 of, 61 ; an orphan, by the Itchen, 

 295 ; tamed by feeding, 299 ; 

 gregarious instinct in the 

 young, 300 



Blackburn, Mrs. Hugh, her ac- 

 count of the young cuckoo, 15 



Blackmoor, church at, 209 



Boldre or Lymington river, 3 ; a 

 house by the, 5; between the 

 Exe and the, 31, 37 



Bourne, the, or Selbome stream, 

 186 



Loy, a New Forest, 172; his 

 ignorance of the Forest wild 

 life, 173 ; a naturalist, 322 



Boys, stray, in Wolmer, 236 



Bracken, possible cause of plea- 

 sure in appearance of, 67 



Brockenhurst, Crooleptus iolithus 

 on gravestones at, 214 



Bullfinches, 206 



Bunting, four kinds of, by the 

 Itchen, 304 



337 



