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Aberdavine (siskin), iii note. 



Achangre, 260 ; Jacobus de, 258. 



Actedene, Richard, 260. 



Adanson on migration of swallows, 80. 



Aikin, Dr., his Naturalist's Calendar, xiii, xxix, 319 note. 



Air, humming in the, 336. 



Alice Holt, xxvii ; held by grant from the Crown, ig, 20 ; extracts relating 



to, 266 note ; lop and top of, 20. ^ 



Alpine swift, 72 and note, 149. „• 



Alton, xxviii, 260; manufactures of, 11 ; Gurdon, bailiff of, 261. 

 Ameria, one of the wives of Sir Adam Gurdon, makes a grant of lands to 



the Priory, 269. 

 America, animals peculiar to, 55. 

 American junipers resist frost, 224. 

 Ammonites of Selborne, 6. 

 Anathoth, a place of echoes, 181, 221. 

 Andalusia, mild winters of, 31 ; natural history of, to be investigated, 31 ; 



stone-curlew in, 73; movements of birds in, 114; swift in, 145; migra- 

 tion of swift in, 149. 

 Anecdote, White's use of, 64 note. 

 Animals, taming of, 50; aropyi) of, 123; devouring their young, 124; 



sociality of, 155 ; different, attached to each other, 171. 

 Anne, Queen, came to Wolmer-forest to see the red deer, 14. 

 Antiquities of Selborne, 237. 

 Ants, swarming of, 344. 

 Aphides, migration of, 209; enemies of, 232 note; tongue of, 232 note; at 



Selborne, 210, 231, 343. 

 Appendix to Natural History of Selborne, 317 note. 

 April, 1770, the remarkable inclemency of its weather, 106. 

 Aquarium for fishes, 210. 

 Arbours on St. Barnabas' feast, 16. 

 Arden, Robert, 315 note. 

 Aristotle, on migration of birds, xxxii; on goats breathing by their ears, 



33 ; on hawks and cuckoos, 151 note. 

 Arnold, Miles, Selborne parsonage leased to, 309. 

 Arum, the cuckoo-pint, eaten in hard weather, by what, 34. 

 Ascension, birds in isle of, 79, 100. 



' The entries which have the first word in small capital letters are from the 

 original edition of 1789. They are of interest on several accounts ; among others, 

 because they contain old words, which occur nowhere else in the book. 



