INDEX. 



ADDERS, with two heads, 201. 



Affection of birds, 127. 



Air, dryness of, in Italy, 264. 



Anne, Queen, came to Wolmer 

 Forest to see the red deer, 14. 



Anomaly in the law of Nature, 130. 



Antenna, supposed organs of hear- 

 ing in insects, 214. 



Ants, particulars respecting, 317. 



Aphides, great shower of them in 

 August, 317. 



April, 1770, the remarkable incle- 

 mency of the weather, 91. 



Aquatic salamander, its age before 

 it procreates, 46. 



Arctic dogs do not bark, 261. 



Arum, the cuckoo-plant eaten in 

 hard weather by the thrush, 37. 



Ascent of sap, theory of, 322. 



Ash-tree, a ruptured one, what, 194. 



August the most mute month re- 

 specting the singing of birds, 164. 



Aurora Borealis, 330. 



Ayles Holt, alias Alice Holt, the 

 forest of, 20. 



Barometer, remarkable fall of, 2d 



November, 1768, 329. 

 Barometers, Selborne and Newton 



compared, 265 ; South Lambeth, 



366. 

 Barragon, a genteel corded stuff, 



where manufactured, 12. 

 Bat, a tame one, 28 ; drink on the 



wing, 28 ; seen in frost, 28 ; great, 



or noctula, 77 and 119. 

 Bats, number of species in Britain, 



27 ; gregarious, 120. 

 Bats, a curious sense in, 120. 

 Beans sown by birds, 325. 

 Bee-eater, 108 



Bee, wild, account of, 312. 



Beech trees, loveliest of the forest, 

 1 ; love to grow in crowded situa- 

 tions, 322. 



Beetles buzz, at the time that par- 

 tridges call, 306. 



Bin's Pondj for what remarkable, 1 7. 



Birch wine, 195. 



Birds, common, that have no Eng- 

 lish name, 23 ; influenced in colour 

 by food, 37 ; summer, of passage, 

 a list of, 40 64 ; winter, of 

 passage, a, list of, 66 ; that con- 

 tinue in full song till after mid- 

 summer, 69 ; why fatten in mode- 

 rate frosts, 86 ; living ones shewn 

 here, when from distant regions, 

 why usually of the thickbilled 

 genera, 95 ; are pulveratrices, 97 ; 

 seen spring and autumn at Gib- 

 raltar, 102 ; what occasions their 

 congregating, 122 ; number of 

 British species, 167; during nidi- 

 fication tame, 6 and 175; soft- 

 billed that winter with us, how 

 supported, 176 ; flight of, 221 ; 

 language of, 223 ; that fly by 

 night obliged to be noisy, 225 ; 

 general observations on, 285 ; 

 seen at seia on a passage to South 

 America, 287 ; of prey, their 

 boldness and rapacity, 295. 



Blackbird, which crew like a cock, 

 70. 



Black-cap, an elegant songster, 166. 



Black-game seen at Selborne, 13; 

 in what counties of England they 

 are now met with, 1 4. 



Black-thorn usually blossoms while 

 cold winds blow, 323. 



Black spring, 1771, account of, 330. 



