INDEX 



339 



Dog, his recollection of a hidden 



bone, 118 

 Domestication, change in habits 



caused by, 184 

 Dragon - flies, lack of English 



names for, 130; their strange 



appearance, 132; a flight of 



blue, settled on bracken, 134. 

 Dray ton, Michael, quoted as to 



the coot, 283 



Drumming or bleating of snipe, 43 

 Drumming-trees of wood-peckers, 



11-13 

 Dust-bath, a wren's enjoyment 



of a, 326 



EARTH, odour of, 168 



Edgar, King, memorial of his 



murder of Athelwold, 152 

 Eggs, ejection of, by young cuc- 

 koo, 18-20, 24 



Elaboration and degeneration, 161 

 Elderberries by the Itchen, 329 

 Emblems on old gravestones, 212 

 Epeira, grasshopper killed by, 47 

 Ephemerae, destruction of, by 



swifts, 292 



Exe, valley of the, 37 

 Eye colours, racial feeling with 

 regard to, 256 



FAMILY, a more or less happy, 

 280, 283 



Farringdon, cirl-bunting at, 189 ; 

 Gilbert White curate at, 217 ; 

 yew tree at, 218 



Fascination, question of, 104 ; the 

 weasel's method of, 105 ; as 

 exerted on mammals, 106; in- 

 quiry as to interpretation of, 

 110; its disadvantage to those 

 subject to it, 112; as exerted 

 by diving birds on fishes, 287 



Fear, paralysing eft'ect of, on 

 birds and mammals, 106-109; 

 on fishes, 287 



" Fiddlers," flies eaten by, 74 



Field crickets, sound of, 184 ; a 

 colony of, near Southampton, 

 185 



Fire, fascination of, for cats, 108 ; 

 for certain Hampshire pigs, 111 



Firefly, comparison of, with glow- 

 worm, 136 ; described by Bed- 

 does, 137 



Fish, capture of, by diving birds, 

 287 



Fishing, instruction in, given by 

 parent grebes, 285 



Flavour, purple, of certain fruits, 

 310 



Fleas, their adaptation in size to 

 their host, 114 



Forest-fly, his tenacity, 36 ; cattle 

 tormented by, 72 



Fox, alarm cry of birds at sight 

 of, 103 



Fritillary, silver-washed, 128 



GAUCHOS, singing contests among 

 the, 159 



Gentry, the, a mixed race, 245 



Gipsies of the South of England, 

 172 



Glow-worm, shining of, after 

 death, 85 ; impression produced 

 by light of, 135 ; comparison of, 

 with the firefly, 136 ; quality of 

 its light, 137 ; doubts as to 

 purpose of the light, 139 



Goldfinch, the, by the Itchen, 273 



"Good-for-nothing grass," 154, 

 160 



Gould, Rev. W., his Account of 

 English Ants quoted, 95, 102 ' 



Grass, false brome, great grass- 

 hoppers in the, 155 ; floating, 

 in Hampshire rivers , 266, 321 



Grasshopper, spider and, 47 ; 

 black, see Thamnotrizoii ; great 

 green, 146 ; his music, 149 ; 

 rival minstrelsy of, 155 ; kick- 



