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INDEX. 



Owls, structure of wing-feathers of, i. 



149, note. 

 , their habits of feeding, &c., i. 



148, 484. 

 Oxen, fatal effects on, from eating 



leaves and twigs of the yew-tree, i. 



292, ii. 260. 



Paradyss mede, i. 362. 

 Parliamentary acts respecting Wolmer 



forest, i. 312. 

 Parsonage of Selborue leased, i. 364. 

 Partial frost, i. 476. 

 Partridge, solicitude for its young, i. 



429. 

 Passus Decimus of Piers Plowman, 



extract from, i. 339. 

 Peacock, tail of, its true position, i. 



92. 

 Peat cut in Wolmer forest, ii. 279. 

 Pennant, Thomas, letters from Gilbert 



"White to, i. 1-112. 

 Peregrine falcon shot near Wolmer 



forest, i. 253. 

 Pettichaps, remarks on the, i. 252. 

 Phaltena qitercus, damage done to oaks 



by, i. 456. 

 Pheasant, description of a hybrid, i. 



430. 485. 

 Phenomena in 1783, i. 271, 485. 

 Philip the Hardy, i. 314. 

 Piers Plowman, the clergy ridiculed 



by. i. 338. 

 Pigeon, house-, origin of, i. 109. 

 Pigeon-hnwk, ii. 240. 

 Pigeons attacked by owls, i. 82. 

 Pink. Mr., anecdote of, ii. 156. 

 Plants found at Selborne, i. 217. ii. 



369. 

 , various times of flowering, i. 



219. 



and animals. Mr. Banks's collec- 



tion of, ii. 99. 



Plestor, the, i. 5, 310. 



Poems, i. 499. 



Ponds in Wolmer forest named after 

 extinct animals, i..23, note. 



Pope Innocent VIII., bull issued by, 

 i. 359. 



Pope Martin, bull issued by, i. 337. 



Population of Selborne, i. 13, 14. 



Portland, Duke of, ii. 295. 



Position of the church, i. 290. 



Pottery. Eoman, found at Blackmoor, 

 ii. 380. 



Poultry, sagacity shown by, i. 427. 



Preceptores and preceptorium, mean- 

 ing of, i. 320. 



Preceptories in Southampton, i. 317. 



Prediction, remarkable, concerning re- 

 ligious houses, i. 339. 



Prettejohn, Mr., on Roman - British 

 remains found at Selborne, ii. 378, 

 385. 



Prior, dispute about the election of a, 

 i. 345. 



, forms respecting the choosing 



of a, i. 323, 377. 



Priors, list of the, of Selborne priory 

 i. 353. 



Priory of Selborne, i. 299, 375. 



, impropriation of the, i. 355. 



■ lands leased out, i. 362. 



, privileges and immunities en- 

 joyed by the, i. 366. 



, the, a source of prosperity to 



Selborne, i. 373. 



Wavneflete endeavours to re- 



form the, i. 354. 

 1'thiKs pectinicornis, damage done to 



furniture by, i. 453. 

 Puckeridge, cause of, i. 439, ii. 213, 



216, 250. 



Quadrupeds, observations on, i. 448. 

 Quail, tridactyl, from Madagascar, 

 ii. 6. 



Rabbits, finest turf made by, i. 448. 



Rain, measurement of, i. 12, 488, 

 ii. 1<>7, 173, 176, 178, 194. I'm;. 



Rainbow, on the (poem), i. 502, ii. 

 147. 149. 



Rapacity of birds of prey, i. 434. 



Raven-tree, the, i. 6. 



Ray. Mr., epitaph of. ii. 223. 



Redbreast, song of. i. 101. 



Redshank, spotted, i. 59, note. 



Redstart, its song and habits, i. 103. 



Redwings breed in Sweden, i. 134. 



Reed-thrush of Latham, ii. ( J,note. 



Reflection of fog, i. 477. 



Register, Beaufort's, i. 334, 336. 



, Waynflete's, extracts from, i. 



341-349! 



Registers of Gilbert White's family, 

 ii. 95. 



Relics of Selborne priory, i. 3711. 



Religious, military orders of the, i. 316. 



— — houses embarrassed, i. 333. 



, i-emarkable prediction con- 

 cerning, i. 339. 



orders,dissensionsbetween,i.317. 



Renovation of leaves, i. 470. 



Reptilia, species of, at Selborne, i. 53. 

 ii. 366. 



