INDEX. 353 



Migration, actual, 60 ; ;ifc Gibraltar, 

 ocular demonstration of, 110; 

 Audubon's remarks on, 254. 



Missel-thrush, the largest singing- 

 bird, 73 ; pugnacious, 175. 



Mist, called London smoke, usually 

 followed by dry weather, 328. 



Moisture of climate, influenced by 

 trees, 196. 



Mole- cricket, 237. 



Moose- deer, female, size of, 84. 



Mount Rusfi, fall of, 231. 



Mouse, harvest, 24, 29, 34. 



Museum, countryman's, 25. 



Music, of birds, on what it depends, 

 78; its powerful effect on some 

 minds, 258. 



Mytilus crista-galli, a curious fossil 

 shell, 7. 



Naturalist's summer evening walk, 



62. 



Naturalist's Calendar, 337. 

 Nests of Nicobar swallow, eaten in 



India and China, 158; their 



great price, ib. 

 Newt, water, or eft, 45-49. 

 Nightingale, its geographical range 



in Britain, 111. 

 Norehill, 2. 

 Northern birds, seen in the south 



of England, 50. 

 Notes of birds, whether innate or 



acquired, 89. 

 Noxious insects, 115. 

 Nuthatch, peculiarity of its bill, 



41. 



Oak, picturesque beauty of, 1 ; 

 Temple and Blackmore, 3 ; Shire, 

 5 ; Cowthorpe, 5 ; large one 

 planted in the Plestor, 4 ; the 

 great one in the Holt, 321 ; size 

 and growth of, 320. 



Oiling feathers, how performed by 

 birds, 170. 



Oriole, golden, 109. 



Osprey, mode of taking its prey, 

 135. 



Otter, where one killed, 90. 



Owl, brown, tame one, 27 ; feed 

 on fish, 89; hoot on different 

 keys, 1 16 ; several particulars con- 



cerning, ib. ; live without water, 



133. 

 Owls, white, young difficult to 



breed up, 27 ; do hoot, 131. 

 Owls, burrowing, 52. 



Page, John, devoured by maggots, 



114. 



Pairing of birds, 89. 

 Partridges, solicitude for their 



brood, 291. 

 Passenger pigeon, its rapidity of 



flight, 93. 

 Passeres, order of, contains all the 



singing birds, 72. 



Peacocks, their train not a tail, 16. 

 Peacock-hens, when aged, assume 



the male plumage, 116. 

 Pettychaps, rare at Selborne, 259. 

 Petrifaction, three states of, 7. 

 Phalcena quercus, destructive to 



oaks, 310. 

 Pheasant, hybrid, described, 291 ; 



hen, sometimes assumes the male 



plumage, 116. 

 Pheasants, cause of their cowering 



and squatting, 295. 

 Pigeons, drink like quadrupeds, 165. 

 Plants, catalogue of the more rare 



in Selborne, 218. 

 Plestor, account of, 5. 

 Plover, the stilt, a curious bird, and 



rare in Britain, 240. 

 Ponds on elevations, why seldom 



dry, 197. 

 Poultry, endowed with discernment 



to turn things to their own 



advantage, 289. 

 Predatory birds, can long sustain 



want of food, 133. 

 Prints of animals' feet on sand- 

 stone, 8. 



Ptarmigan, on its change of plu- 

 mage, 76. 



Ptinus pectinicornis, 308. 

 Puffins breed in holes on the flat 



ground, 53. 



Quadrupeds, observations on, 283. 

 Queen's Bank, why so called, 1 4. 



Rabbits make the finest turf, 283. 

 Rain, mean of, not to be ascertained 

 at any place for many years, 11 ; 



