356 INDEX. 



Wasps, wonderful provision in na- 

 ture for restricting their increase, 

 278 ; observations on, 312. 



Water, hardness of, the cause, 3. 



Weasel, anecdote of, 163. 



Weather, dripping after drought, 

 influence of, 329 ; summary of 

 from 1768 to 1792, 331. 



Well-head, a fine perennial spring, 2. 



Well, depth of at Selborne, 3 ; curi- 

 ous particulars respecting making 

 wells at Modena, 197. 



Wheat, mistaken notion concern- 

 ing, 326. 



Wheatear, account of, 43, 147 ; 

 Sussex bird so called, 174. 



Whip-poor-will, of the Americans, 

 what, 59. 



White lusus natures of different 

 species, 36. 



White-throat, particulars of, 166. 



Wild pigeons, three different kinds 

 in Britain, 246. 



Willow-wrens, three kinds, 38; 

 lark, 49. 



Winchester, Hoadley, bishop of, his 

 humane objection to the restock- 

 ing Waltham Chase with deer, 15. 



Winter-cut timber, its superiority 

 over that cut in summer, 21 , 



Wolmer, Forest of, 20 ; how abutted, 

 9 ; has abounded with fossil trees, 

 12 ; haunt of many kinds of wild 



i fowl, 12 ; once well stocked with 

 black game, ib. ; with red-deer, 

 13; pond, its measurement, fowls, 

 &c. 19. 



Woodcocks, food of, 80 ; Scopoli's 

 assertion about, 96 ; hen with 

 eggs before she leaves England, 

 104; nest, 106; sluggish and 

 sleepy at times, 110; extensive 

 physical distribution of, 118. 



Wood, fossil, where found, 263. 



Worms, earth, no inconsiderable 

 link in the chain of nature, 205, 

 318; Reaumur's conjecture re- 

 specting their numbers, 205 ; 

 worm of corruption, ib. ; glow, 

 put out their lamp between eleven 

 and twelve, 318 ; males attracted 

 by light, come into parlours, ib. 



Wren, strong instance of maternal 

 solicitude of, 129. 



Wrens, willow, three species, 49 ; 

 smallest uncrested, the second of 

 early summer birds, 299. 



Wrens and martens, contest be- 

 twixt, 128. 



Wryneck, walks a little, 305. 



Yellow-hammer, sings later in the 

 year than any other bird, 85. 



Yeoman-prickers, their agility as 

 horsemen, 14. 



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