350 INDEX. 



Blow-flies, destructive and prolific, 

 113. 



Bohemian chatterer, 29. 



Bonibylius medius, account of, 316. 



Botany of Selborne, 218. 



Boy, an idiot, his strange propensi- 

 ties, 190. 



Brimstone Lodge, account of, 17. 



Brooks at Selborne, fishes they pro- 

 duce, 26. 



Broad-leaved elm, planted ones, 

 their growth, 4. 



Bug, harvest, account of, 113. 



Bullfinch, turns black, 37 ; remarks 

 on its song,72 ; female, a songster, 

 72. 



Bunting, very rare at Selborne, 33. 



Bustard, 103. 



Butcher-bird, red-backed, 50. 



Butter's account of female birds as- 

 suming the male plumage, 96, 293. 



Buzzards, honey, account of, 243. 



Canary bird, query respecting, 30. 



Cane, a Suffolk name for the weasel, 

 36. 



Caprimutgus, or fern-owl, 57, 120 ; 

 superstitions concerning, 343. 



Castration, its strange effects, 201. 



Carp, called river fox, why, 165; 

 lives to a great age, 166. 



Cats catch fish, 88 ; suckle young 

 squirrels, 284. 



Cockatrice accounted for, 94. 



Congregation of birds, 122. 



Cowthorpe oak, largest in Britain, 5. 



Chaffinches, vast flocks of hens, 32 

 and 104. 



Chalk-hills, why peculiarly beauti- 

 ful, 145. 



Charadrius himantopus, 238. 



Chestnut timber, very like oak, 323. 



Chiff-chaff, or willow-wren, 150 

 and 299. 



Chinese dog and bitch, 261 ; Arctic 

 dog, 261. 



Cimex linearis, 310. 



Climate of Britain, supposed change 

 of, accounted for, 196. 



Clouds, morning, occasion of, 329. 



Cobwebs, shower of, 180. 

 Coccus vitis viniferce, a curious in- 

 sect, 249. 



Cock-chaffers, particulars relative 

 to, 307. 



Cockroach, monography of, 308. 



Cock of the woods, reintroduced 

 lately into Scotland, 14. 



Coins, copper found at Selborne, 19. 



Cornua ammonis, where found, 7. 



Cricket, field, monography of, 232 ; 

 hearth cricket, 235 ; mole mono- 

 graphy of, 237 ; more particulars 

 concerning, 309. 



Crossbills, 14, 26, 147 ; different 

 species, 98. 



Crocus, spring and saffron, same 

 species bloom at different seasons, 

 220. 



Craterina hirundines, 134. 



Cuckoo, incubation of, 80, 81, and 

 86 ; seen skimming over a pond, 

 98; a young one in a titlark's 

 nest, 98 ; sing on different keys, 

 116; eggs, size of, 186; food of, 

 199 ; sing at night, 224. 



Cucumbers set by bees, 326. 



Cumberland, William, Duke of, 

 removes r^d-deer from Wolmer 

 Forest, 14. 



Cunnemara, in Ireland, rare plants 

 found in, 178. 



Cypress tree of immense size, 5. 



Daws breed in unlikely places, and 



why, 53. 

 Deer, red, formerly in Wolmer 



Forest, 14; fallow in Holt Forest, 



20 ; breathing spiracula of, 35 ; 



stealing, 15. 



j Dew, honey, remarks on, 329. 

 Dispersion of birds, pretty equal, 



216 ; of the seeds of plants, 324. 

 I Diving birds, how their wings and 



feet are placed, 297. 

 Dipper, European, a song bird, 99. 

 I Ducks betake themselves to water 



at night, 290 ; ducks, foreign, 



roost on trees, 290. 



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Eagle and vulture tribe, their geo- 

 graphical range, 109 ; eagle 



drowned by a pike, 136. 

 Earthquakes, 280. 

 Echo, general remarks on, 212 ; a 



polysyllabical one, 213; why since 



