354 INDEX. 



what has fallen at Selborne of late 

 years, 1 1 ; prodigious fall of, at 

 Joyeuse, 58 ; average quantity in 

 different parts of Britain, 107; 

 compared with that of Plymouth, 

 264. 



Raven-tree, 6. 



Raven's nest, 6. 



Rat, whether two kinds of, 24 ; 

 water, a curious anecdote con- 

 cerning one, 77. 



Ray, Mr, why a superior writer, 

 118. 



Red-backed butcher-bird, 50. 



Red-breast, remarkable proof of love 

 of offspring, 128; why supposed 

 to sing in autumn only. 165. 



Redstart, moves its tail horizontally, 

 164 ; its singularities, 166. 



Redwing, first bird that suffers by 

 frost ; its nest found in Harris, 

 106. 



Reptiles, number of British, 47. 



Return of birds, 90. 



Ringousel, 30, 51, 54, 61, 67, 158; 

 breed in Dartmoor Park, Derby, 

 95. 



Ringdove, familiarity during incu- 

 bation, 175; food of, 294. 



Rooks, perfectly white, 36 ; quick- 

 ness in detecting the resort of 

 grubs, 122 ; strong attachment to 

 places, 148 ; language of, 264 ; 

 are continually fighting, 287; 

 have their wings frozen by sleet, 

 328. 



Root weevil, 113. 



Royston crow, 112. 



Ruperta, whose daughter and wife 

 she was, 20. 



Rupert, Prince, a great mechanic, 

 in what he excelled, 20. 



Rushes instead of candles, 188; 

 ropes of, 188. 



Rutland, county of, what rain fell 

 there, 107. 



Salicaria, 61, 68. 



Sand-martens, 158; American iden- 

 tical with European, 162; seen 

 before any of its congeners, 302. 



Scallops, or pectines, where found, 8. 



Scopoli, account of his works, 97. 



Scotland, in what its maps are 

 defective, 179. 



Sedge-bird, 68, 138; a delicate 

 polyglot, 79 ; variety of its notes, 

 139. 



Seeds lying dormant, 325. 



Selborne parish, its situation and 

 abutments, 1 ; village, how circum- 

 stanced, 2 ; the manor of, abounds 

 with game, 10 ; parish of, of vast 

 extent, 1 1 ; population, ib. ; quan- 

 tity of rain at, ib. 



Serpent kind eat periodically, 46. 



Sexes, of birds and beasts, when 

 they separate, 104. 



Shade, its effects in neutralizing 

 terrestrial radiation, 267. 



Shells, fossil, found at great depths 

 under ground, 8. 



Sheep, Sussex breeds, 145 ; varieties 

 of, 146 ; observations on, 283. 



Short-winged birds, on their mi- 

 gration, 33. 



Showers of frogs, various, 44. 



Singing birds, 69, 73. 



Skunk, or stinking weasel, 68. 



Slugs, very injurious to young 

 wheat, 318. 



Snails, remarks on, 318. 



Snakes, on their time of eating, 46 ; 

 take the water, 47 ; stink se 

 defendendo, 68; curious parti- 

 culars concerning, 319. 



Snipes, their piping and humming 

 during incubation, 41. 



Snowfleck, seen at Selborne, 75. 



Sociality in the brute creation, 183. 



Soft-billed birds, where resident in 

 winter, 66. 



Solar compass, or heliastron, 227. 



Song of birds, 78. 



Sow, great fecundity of, 203. 



Sparrow and canary, anecdote of, 

 164; pulls straws out of stacks, 

 177. 



Spells used against the effects of 

 withcraft, 192. 



Sphynx ocellata, account of, 311. 



Squirrels, three young ones suckled 

 by a cat, 284. 



Starlings, immense congregations 

 of, 123. 



