INDEX. 351 



mute, 215; echoes, a charming 

 description of, from Lucretius, 

 215 ; curious effect of, occasioned 

 by the discharge of a swivel-gun, 

 265. 



Eels, the propagation of, 42, 163. 



Edible frog, Mr Don asserts, is 

 found in Forfarshire, 45. 



Eggs of insects, can bear much cold, 

 272; eggs of insects, 314; which 

 contain male insects before the 

 females hatched, 308. 



Electricity, animals charged with, 

 proved, 276. 



Elm, wych, great size of a trans- 

 planted one, 4. v 



Elms, planted ones, their growth, 4. 



Empedes, or tipulce, swarms of, 306. 



Erica Mediterranea discovered in 

 Cunnemara, Ireland, 178. 



European dipper, or water-ousel, 

 an elegant songster, 99. 



Fairy rings, occasion of, 327. 



Falcon, peregrine, of, 260. 



Familiarity of redbreasts and wrens 

 during snow storms, 176. 



Female birds when old frequently 

 assume the male plumage, 96. 



Fieldfares, do not breed in England 

 nor Highlands of Scotland, 74; 

 anecdote of, 74 ; food of, 104 ; 

 roost on the ground, 83. 



Fishes, gold and silver, 251. 



Flies, many species retire to houses 

 in the fall of the year, 316. 



Flight of birds, 92, 22] ; of ear- 

 wigs described, 306. 



Fly, bacon, injurious to the house- 

 wife, 113; whame, or burrel, 

 oestrus curvicauda, 115, 315; 

 May, swarms of, in June, 1771, 

 31 1 ; nose, very tormenting to 

 horses, 313 ; ichneumon, destruc- 

 tive to spiders, 313. 



Fly-catcher, some account of, 166." 



Fogs, 198 ; reflection in, a singular 

 phenomenon, 328. 



Food and climate, their influence on 

 animals, 37. 



Fossil wood, luminous appearance 

 of, in bogs, 12. 



Fountain tree, account of, 1 95. 



Freestone analagous to chalk, 2. 



Frogs, metamorphosis of, 46; dif- 

 ferent showers of, 44. 



Frost, that of January, 1768, descri- 

 bed, 266 ; of January, 1776, 270; 

 December, 1784, 274; partial, 

 cause of, 327 ; gentle, fattens 

 animals, &c. 86 ; dependent on 

 wet, 266 ; curious phenomenon 

 of, described, 275. 



Galls of Lombardy poplar, 322. 



Gassendus, curious passage quoted 

 from, 258. 



German silk-tail, garrulus bohemi- 

 CMS, shot, 29 ; flocks of, 29 ; boar 

 turned out in Wolmer, 21. 



Gipsies, some particulars about, 185. 



Glowworm, account of, 318. 



Golden oriole, oriolus galbula y an 

 occasional visitant, 109. 



Goose, singular presentiment in 

 one, 184. 



Gossamer, wonderful shower of, 180. 



Goatsucker, 59 ; use of its serrated 

 claw, 121. 



Golden crested wren, 42. 



Greatham, the manor of, its privi- 

 leges in Wolroer Forest, 16. 



Grasshopper-lark, 39. 



Grosbeak, account of, 305. 



Hail storm at Selborne in the sum- 

 mer of 1784, 281 ; calamities from 

 in France, 281. 



Hanger, Selborne, 1. 



Harvest mouse, 34 ; bug, 113. 



Harmony of design in the works of 

 creation, 143. 



Hampden, John, disinterment of, at 

 Hampton, 205. 



Hare, the alpine, or white, 75. 



Hawfinch, account of, 26. 



Hawkley-hanger, the fall of, 230. 



Hawk-sparrow, the dread of the 

 housewives, 243 : blue, or hen- 

 harrier, boldness of, when urged 

 by hunger, 295. 



Haze, or smoky fog, the peculiar 

 one which prevailed in summer, 

 1783,270. 



Hearing in insects, organs of, 214. 



Heath-fires, why lighted up, 16. 



