INDEX 



Newland, the Selborne horn- 

 blower, 226, 237; his capture 

 and pardon, 227, 238 ; his grave 

 under the yew tree, 239 



Newman, Edward, colony of green 

 grasshoppers mentioned in his 

 Entomologist, 152; his Phyto- 

 logist referred to as to the 

 mimulus, 315 



Nightingale, date of cessation of 

 its song, 98 



Night-jar, its care of the young, 42 



Nore Hill, view from, 200 



Norfolk, the churches of, com- 

 pared with those of Hants, 203 



Northington, immense church at, 

 317 



OAK woods, attractiveness of, 99 ; 



distinguishing beauty of, in 



autumn, 307 

 Oast-house, old, at Farringdon, 



217 



Open spaces, the love of, 40 

 Ovington, watching swifts at, 



292 ; reed - bunting at, 305 ; 



mimulus blossoming at, 314 ; 



swallows congregating at, 334 

 Owl, tawny, voice of, 4 ; a white, 



at Alton, 179 ; brown, by the 



Itchen, 335 



PAIN, undue sensibility to, 27 ; 



indispensable to life, 28 

 Parsons, Mr., formerly vicar of 



Selborne, 239 

 Peasantry, racial types best found 



among the, 245; ancient and 



modern, compared, 330 

 Peewit, his wailing complaints, 



45 ; a dead young, 93 

 Pen Ponds in Richmond Park, a 



coot comedy on, 281 

 Pigeons, three kinds of, by the 



Itchen, 272; blue colour of 



young, 322 



Pigmentation, variation in in- 

 tensity of, 255 



Pigs, certain, insane attraction of 

 fire for, 111 



Pike, its attempt to seize a 

 swallow, 39 



Pixie-mounds, 50, 52 



Polyergus rufescens, over-special- 

 isation of, 162 



Polygonurn persicaria, coot feed- 

 ing on, 281 



Pond-skaters, flies eaten by, 74 



Priors Dean, small church at, 206 



Privett, large new church at, 209 



QUEEN ant, deferential treat- 

 ment of, 96 



RABBIT, paralysing effect of 

 stoat's presence on, 106, 109 



Races, successive absorption of, 

 in England, 258 



Rain, swifts and swallows not 

 affected by, 294 



Redshank, breeding of, 44 



Reed-bunting, song of, 304 



Ring-dove, young of, 322 



Robin, cuckoo's egg in nest of, 

 16 ; ejection of eggs and young 

 of, by young cuckoo, 18-24 ; an 

 ejected nestling, 23 ; parental 

 insensibility, 24, 25 



Rose, cult of the, 64 



SAND-MARTINS, late migration 



of, 294 ; a dead one, 295 

 Saxon type, the, in Hampshire, 



249, 332 ; occasional reversion 



to the, 250 ; comparison of, with 



Iberian, 261 

 Scent, unpleasing, of yellow 



flowers, 309 

 Seebohm on stories of the young 



cuckoo, 16 

 Selborne, idle visitors to, 175 ; a 



second visit to, 177; bird in- 



