INDEX. 



ANCIENT coins, discovery of, at Selborne, 



201 



Anecdote of a young cuckoo, 103 

 Anecdotes of owls, 114 

 Animals, love of company exhibited by, 



138 

 Antique vase or urn found at Selborne 



Priory, 262 



Antiquities of Selborne, 201 

 Ants, emigration of, 295 

 Aphides, emigration of, 181 

 Ashforde, the last Prior of Selborne, 255 

 Aurora-borealis, 305 



BANK-MARTIN, burrowed nests of the, 



128 

 Barometrical observations at Selborne, 



190 

 Bat, new kind of, discovered, 76 



, singular species of, first noticed by 



White, 76 

 Bavaria, general extermination of game 



in, 18 



Beans and Peas sown by birds, 301 

 Belfry of Selborne church, 207 

 Bin's pond, disappearance of, 20 

 Birds, beans and peas sown by, 301 

 , how supported during the winter 

 months, 83 



infested by insects, 116 



of prey, rapacity of, when hungry, 



277 



singular social habits of, 66 



that sing whilst flying, 95 



varied motions of, 164 



Bishop Farmer's account of Selborne 



Priory, 259 

 Blind worm, controversy regarding the 



habits of the, 44 

 Bohemian wax-wing, occasional visits 



of the, 31 



Breeding properties of the cuckoo, 99 

 Brood-hens, revenge of, upon a sparrow- 

 hawk, 168 



Bridge, ancient, at Selborne, 258 

 ' ' British Zoology," White's contribution 



to Pennant's, 78 



Bull of Pope Martin V. regarding Sel- 

 borne priorv, 238 

 Bustard, particulars regarding the, 72 



CALENDARS, comparative view of White's 



and Markwick's, 319330 

 Candles, rushes best adapted for, 140 

 Carp, supposed torpidity of the, 82 

 Castration, singular effects of, 149 

 Cat and leveret, anecdote of a, 150 

 Cat, squirrels nurtured by a, 288 

 Chapel of Whaddon, account of the, 258 

 Chimney-swallow, peculiar habits of 



the, 122 



Cobwebs, extraordinary display of, 136 

 Coccus, an insect rarely seen in England, 



180 

 Cockchafer, the, noticed by many Greek 



authors, 55 



Cockroach, habits of the, 289 

 Colour, influence of, on the food of birds, 



269 

 Congregation of birds, reasons for the, 



110 



Copper coins found at Selborne, 201 

 Copulation of rooks, 171 

 Courage of birds in defence of their 



young, 112 



Cuckoo, nests selected by the, 97 

 why eggs are said not to be hatched 



by the, 147 

 Cure for the bite of a viper, 43 



DAWS, the nest-building of, 50 

 Description of Selborne Church, 20420* 

 Dogs, aversion of, to dead game, 188 



, remarks about, 187 



Ducks capable of perching in trees, 272 

 Dusting and washing birds, 102 



ECHO, how to produce an, 159 

 Echoes, Virgil's notion regarding, 158 

 Edward II. , anecdote of, 203 

 Eels, the island of Ely famous for, 81 

 Election of a Prior of Selborne, 236 

 Encaustic tiles at Selborne, 245 

 Esculent swallow, description of the, 127 

 Experiments upon echoes, results of, 157 

 Extraordinary land-slip near Selborne, 

 169 



FAIR, origin of the, at Selborne, 263 

 Fairy-rings, how produced, 302 

 Fall of Selborne Priory, 255 



