358 INDEX 



AsHFORD, Thomas, last prior of Selborne, 297, 299, 300, 304 ; is pensioned 



by Magdalen College, 306. 

 Ashton, John, 297. 



Ash-tree, a rupture one, what, 161 ; a shrew one, what, 162. 

 Ash-trees, 349. 



Asses ploughing and penned, 151. 

 Attfield on bleeding birch, 348 note. 



August, the most mute month respecting the singing of birds, 84. 

 Augustine Canons, 257 note. 

 Auk, little, found near Alresford, 81. 

 Auks, walk of, i8g. 

 Aurora borealis, 356. 

 Austine, Ralph, vicar of Selborne, 253. 

 Autumn song of birds, 83. 

 Ayles Holt, alias Alice Holt, the forest of, 19 ; its grantees, 19. 



Bacon-fly, 74. 



Badeisley, preceptory at, 270. 



Barker, Samuel, x. 



Thomas, 9 note. 



Barometer, used to measure height, 221 ; remarkable fall of, 353. 



Barometers, Selborne and Newton compared, 221 ; South Lambeth, 221. 



Baron, Robert, 304. 



Barragon, a genteel corded stuiT, where manufactured, 11. 



Barrington, Hon. Daines, his Naturalist's yournal, xiii, xx ; life of, xvii ; 



on migration, xviii ; on cuckoo, xviii ; on the Linnaean system, xviii ; 



on singing of birds, xix ; favours the Natural History of Selborne^ xxi, 



105 ; on climate of Italy, 105 ; on torpidity of swallow-tribe, 114 note ; 



his Miscellanies, xvii, 206. 

 Bartlett, on prehensile tail of harvest-mouse, 32 note. 

 Basingstoke, 260 ; Holy Ghost Chapel at, destruction of, 314. 

 Bassinges, or Basynges, 260, 263. 

 Bat, a tame one, some particulars about, 26 ; drink on the wing like swallows, 



26 ; the large sort, some particulars about, 62 ; nondescript in 1769, 62 ; 



more account of, 76. 

 Bats, species of, 51 ; of Selborne, 25 ; food of, 26, 62 ; on the Thames, 26; 



sexes of, 76 ; anatomy of, 76. 

 Beachy Head, Cornish choughs found on, 80. 

 Beans sown by birds, 352. 

 Bear's foot (Hellebore), 185. 



Beaufort, bishop of Winchester, his register imperfect, 283. 

 Bee-bird, migration of, 114. 



Beech, 349 ; the most lovely of all forest trees, 1. 

 Bees, idiot boy addicted to, 160 ; supposed to be injured by echoes, 180 ; not 



affected by sounds, 181 ; should not be exposed to sun in winter, 223 ; 



feed on honey-dew, 232 ; carder-bee, 340 ; cucumbers set by, 352. 

 Bell, Prof. Thomas, his Life of Gilbert White, ix note, xxx ; on White and 



Pennant, xvi ; his edition of White's Selborne, xxx ; on black grouse, 



13 note ; on names of Sussex meres, 18 note ; on White's first letter to 



Pennant, 2r note ; on water-shrew, 62 note ; on comparison of birds' legs, 



203 note ; on White's barometer, 221 note; on Selborne Church, 247 



note. 



