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INDEX. 



Birds, why fatter in frosts, 150. 



congregating of, 158, 170. 



- motions of, 253, 255. 



notes of, 255, 256. 



observations on, 125, 319, 



320. 



Bird's-nest ophrys, 251. 

 Blackbird, 54, 121, 306. 

 Blackcap, 35, 40, 95, 124, 145, 149, 



152. 



Black cock, hybrid, 326. 

 Black game, 20. 

 Black spring of 1771, 365. 

 Blackthorn, 360. 

 Blatta orientalis, 344. 

 Blind-worm, 64. 

 Bog-oak, 18, 19. 

 Bog-plants, 27. 

 Bombylius mcdius, 351. 

 Botany, 247, 248. 



- of Selborne, 249, 253. 

 Bot-fly, 107, 108. 

 Brimstone-lodge, 26. 

 Brooks at Selborne, 3. 

 Buck's Horn Oak, 357. 

 Bug, harvest, 106. 

 Bull-head, 39. 



Bullfinch turning black, 54, 118. 

 Bunting, 47. 



snow, 54, 88. 

 Bustards, 143, 156. 

 Butcher-bird, red backed, 70, 116. 



great grey, 116. 



- woodchat, 86, 1 16. 

 Buzzard, honey, 130, 320. 

 Buzzards, 253. 



Calculus from stomach of ox, 111. 

 Calendar, Naturalist's, 377, 402. 

 Canary birds, 44. 

 Cancer, reputed cure for, 67. 

 Cane, or Weasel, 53, 121. 

 Caprimulgus, 76, 78, 84, 113, 114, 



123, 151, 335. 

 Carex cespitosa, 26. 

 Carp, 28. 

 Castration, 230. 

 Cat and leveret, 232. 

 Cat and squirrel, 318. 



Cats, electric, 308. 



fond of fish, 96 



Caterpillars of the oak, 346. 

 Chafers, 80, 81, 113, 123, 335, 343 

 Chaffinch, 46, 54, 118, 147, 157. 

 Chalk hills, 187, 225. 

 Chestnut timber, 359. 



Chiff chaff, 54, 334. 

 Chough, 117, 156. 

 Church, Selborne, 410, 411. 

 Churn-owl, 84. 

 Cimex linearis, 345. 

 Clouds, morning, cause of, 365. 

 Cob- webs, 211,213. 

 Coccus vitis viniferce, 281, 282. 

 Cockscomb, 8. 

 Cock-roach, 344. 

 Coins, Roman, 29, 406. 

 Coluber natrix, 65. 

 Coots, 255. 

 Corn-mills, 504. 

 Cornua Ammonis, 9. 

 Cranes, 255, 257. 

 Cricket, field, 84, 264, 265, 266. 

 267. 



house, 268, 269, 345. 



mole, 270, 271, 272. 



Crocus, 252. 

 Crossbill, 39, 156, 189. 

 Crow, 117, 122, 130, 254. 



Royston or grey, 166. 



Cuckoo, 83, 146, 147, 155, '227. 



note of, 167, 168. 



Cucumbers set by bees, 361. 

 Curlew, stone, 55, 72, 83, 86, 90. 

 104, 105, 296, 334. 



Cyprinus, 285. 



Dabchick, or Little Grebe, 255. 

 Daker-hen, or Landrail, 14, 328. 

 Daws, 73, 74, 75, 171, 190, 254. 

 Deer, 21, 22,23. 



- red, in Wolmer Forest, 21, 

 22. 



fallow, in Holt Forest, 30, 



31. 



their spiracula, 51, 



Deer-stealing, 23, 24. 

 Dipper, 99, 156. 



