352 INDEX. 



Hedgehogs feed on flesh, 82 ; anec- 

 dote of, 83 ; cannot contract when 



young, S3. 



Heliastron, or solar compass, 227. 

 Heliotropes, summer and winter, 



how to make them, 227. 

 Hellebores, order of blowing, 219. 

 Hen, bold during incubation, 127 ; 



with cock plumage, 291. 

 Heronry, an account of, 57. 

 Highlands of Scotland, their south- 

 ern boundary, 179. 

 Hind, her courage in defence of her 



young, 16. 

 Hirundines, British, arrival in three 



distant counties, 174. 

 Hogs would live, if suffered to a very 



great age, 202; very prolific, 203. 

 Honey buzzard, 243 ; dew, 329. 

 Hoopoes seen at Selborne, 25 and 



109 ; (upupa eops. ) 

 Hops, soil suited to, 3 ; observation 



on, 323. 

 Horns, stags', longer informer times, 



21 ; room containing many at 



Lord Pembroke's, 95. 

 Hornets' nests, how made, 312. 

 Horse and hen, curious instance of 



affection between, 184. 

 Horse hairs, in water, supposed to 



produce eels, 163. 

 Hounds, royal, do not draw coverts 



with address, and why, 285. 

 House-cricket, 235. 

 Howe, General, turns out wild boars 



in Holt Forest, 21. 

 Humming in the air, 307. 

 H uxham,Doctor, his account of rain 



at Plymouth, 264. 



Jackdaws, 148. 

 Jar-bird, what, 40. 



Incongruous associations, 184, 203. 

 Incubation, its effects in taming 



birds, 6, 175. 



Indoor nest of a thrush, 288. 

 Insects, organs of hearing in, 21 4. 



in general, 306. 

 Instinct, sometimes varies, 256 ; 



mistakes in, 257. ; 

 Ireland worthy the attention of a 



naturalist, 178; once inhabited 

 by the elk, 84. 

 Ivy-berries, do not freeze, 323. 



Lakes, American, diminution of, 



accounted for, 197. 

 Lanes, hollow, rocky, 10. 

 Land-rails, insectivorous, 294; birds 



of passage, and appear ill qualified 



'for migration, 293. 

 Language of birds, 233 ; of fowls, 



225. 

 Lapwing, account of a domesticated 



one, 183; gregarious, 123. 

 Larks, white, 36; grasshopper, 



curious account of, S9. 

 Larch, does not thrive on sand- 

 stone, 3. 



Leeches, reproduction of, 320. 

 Leper, miserable one at Selborne, 



208. 

 Leprosy, less common than of old, 



from change of food, 208. 

 Leveret suckled by a cat, 203. 

 Linnets, congregate and chirp, 32. 

 Loaches from Ambresbury, 48. 

 Lobster caterpillar, 314. 

 Long-legged plover, 240. 

 Loon, or speckled diver, 296. 

 Losel's Wood, its taper oaks, 5 ; 



ravenstree, 5. 



Malm, what sort of soil, 3. 

 Male insects hatched first, 308. 

 Magpies, cream-coloured ones, 37; 



voracious habits of, 175. 

 March, two wonderful hot days in 



1777, and effects of that heat, 206. 

 Mare, instance of singular sagacity 



relating to, 284. 

 Marcley hill, removal of, 229. 

 Marten, house, seen very late, 53 ; 



monography of, 139 ; builds her 



nest only in the morning, 140 ; 



peculiar situation of a nest, 143 ; 



sand or bank, monography of, 



157, 302 ; additional observations 



on, 247, 253. 

 May-fly, 62 ; great swarms of in 



1771, 311. 

 Mezzotinto, who supposed to have 



been inventor of, 20. 



