INDEX 



341 



on the, 277 et supra; an old j 

 cottage by the, 329 

 Ivy blossoms, insects feasting on, 

 143 



JACKDAW, the, a wind lover. 231 

 Jay, the, a caterpillar hunter, 



100 ; in Hare wood Forest, | 



152 

 Jenner, Dr., his account of the | 



young cuckoo, 15, 16 

 Jute type of man in Hampshire, I 



243 



KESTRELS with young, 70 

 "Kingfisher," an old name for j 



dragon-fly, 130 

 Kingfisher, capture of a, 324; 



nesting in chalk-pit, 329 



LANGLAND, quotation from, 56 

 Leaves, tint of fallen, 2 

 Life-principle, divisibility of, 82, 



83 

 Lime-trees by the Itchen cottage, 



269, 271 ; bird visitors to the, 



272 

 Ling, beauty of, in Wolmer Forest, 



224 

 Locust family, England their 



northern limit, 193 

 Locusta viridissima, see Grass- 

 hopper, the great green 

 Loe, Mr., his Yew Trees of Great 



Britain and Ireland referred 



to, 220 

 Lucas, Mr.W. T., his monograph 



on British dragon -flies quoted, 



133 



Lyrnington river, see Boldre 

 Lyndhurst, 169 



MALLARDS in Wolmer, 233 

 Mammals, woodland tint of, 2 

 Martyr Worthy, a little dark girl 

 at, 262 



Mayfly, the, decrease in its num- 

 bers, 291 



Meadow-pipit, its struggle with 

 hawk-moth, 127 



Memory, lower kind of, 118 



Migration, gradual, of swallows, 

 333 



Mimulus luteus in Hampshire, 

 310 ; purity of its colour, 312 ; 

 South American associations 

 with, 313 ; as a British plant, 

 314; its wide British range, 

 315 ; at Swarraton, 318 ; old 

 woman's early memories of, 319 



Mitford, Miss, on the lack of 

 beauty in Berkshire faces, 

 199 



Mob, the Sel borne, 226 



Monograph on fleas wanted, 114; 

 on man in Hampshire wanted, 

 244 



Monographs, Huxley on the peril 

 of, 115 



Moor -hen, an inquisitive, 233; 

 the, on the Itchen, 277 ; nest of, 

 on floating water weeds, 278 



Mosaics, cause of pleasure given 

 by sight of, 69 



Moth, death's head, its beauty, 

 126 ; and rarity, 127 



Musk-mallow, the, at Selborne, 

 187 



NAMES, English, lack of, for 

 dragon - flies, 130, 131 ; for 

 insects, 194 



Neolithic times, Iberians in Bri- 

 tain during, 258, 259 



Nestlings, ejection of, by cuc- 

 koo, 18-24 ; strange colouration 

 of, 17, 322 



New Forest, abuses of the, 31 ; 

 paucity of wild life in, 33 ; its 

 future management, 35 ; butter- 

 flies of the, 128 ; hornets in the, 

 142 



