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INDEX 



ing and biting, 156, 158 ; the 

 female, 161 ; her character and 

 habits, 163-166 



Grave, single, under the Sel borne 

 yew, 222, 239 



Gravestones, old, their beauty, 

 210; their sculptured emblems, 

 212; nature's softening touches 

 on, 213 ; under the Hurstbourne 

 Priors yew, 220 



Grebe, the little, a persecuted 

 bird, 279 ; attentions to his 

 mate, 280; his breeding diffi- 

 culties, 284 ; his dogged perse- 

 verance, 285 ; fishing taught by 

 parents to the young, 285 



HABIT, tyranny of, 180 

 Hampshire, characteristics of the 



people of, 241; blonde and dark 



types in, 245; blonde type a 



mixed race, 249 ; Saxon race 



in, 249 ; the dark type, 253 

 Harewood Forest, colony of great 



green grasshoppers in, 152 

 Harris, Moses, his Exposition of 



English Insects quoted, 131 

 Harvest mouse feeding on dock 



seed, 8 

 Hawfinch, hunger cry of young, 



101 

 Hawking Club, extermination of 



stone curlews by, 321 

 Hawk-moth and meadow pipit, 



127 

 Herodotus quoted as to behaviour 



of cats fascinated by fire, 



108 

 Herons at Hollywater Clump, 



231 



Hollywater Clump, 229 

 Honeysuckle, night fragrance of, 



63, 295; berries of, eaten by 



cole-tit, 328 

 Horn-blower, the Selborne, see 



Newland 



Hornet, bank vole and, 9 ; fine 

 appearance of the, 140 ; a South 

 American, 141 ; his rarity, 142; 

 in late autumn, 143 



Horse-ants, struggle of, with 

 caterpillar, 102 



"Horse-stingers," 130 



House crickets, their abundance 

 at Selborne, 183 



House martins, diminished num- 

 ber of, at Selborne, 190 



Humming - bird hawk - moth, 

 beauty of, 124, 126 



Hunger cry of young birds, 

 parental sensibility to, 25, 100 ; 

 of young blackbird, 59 ; of young 

 cirl-bunting, 304 



Hurstbourne Priors, yew tree in 

 churchyard at, 220 



Huxley on the non-Saxon shape 

 of English heads, 253 ; quoted 

 as to his own parentage, 262 



IBERIAN type in Hampshire, 257 ; 

 its persistence, 258; its possible 

 restoration, 259 ; its dominant 

 qualities, 260, 261 ; Huxley's 

 mother an example of the, 

 262 



Influences, pre-natal, possible re- 

 sults of, 110; over -suscepti- 

 bility possibly due to, 112 



Insect life, sound of, 71 



Insect notables, 124, 135, 142, 193 



Insects, honey -eating, in lime 

 trees, 271 ; rapacious, cater- 

 pillars destroyed by, 101 ; com- 

 parative fewness of, in Britain, 

 121 ; as viewed by the indoor 

 mind, 123 



Instinct, possible over -elabora- 

 tion of, 112, 161, 287 



Ironstone in Wolmer Forest, 225 



Itchen, the river, compared with 

 the Test, 268 ; a fishing cottage 

 by the, 269, 325 ; water-birds 



