INDEX 359 



Bell on gypsies in Tartary, 157. 



Bells of Selboine Church, 248. 



Belon's account of migration of hawks and kites, 114. 



Beme, 260. 



Bene's parsonage, 252. 



Bennett on glands of head of antelopes, 32 note. 



Bennett's edition of White's Selborne, xxx. 



Bensted, 266 note. 



Bere, forest of, 78. 



Berger, Calendar of flora by, 28. 



Berne, alias Bernes, Peter, sacrist of Selborne Priory, 288 ; appointed 

 prior by lapse to the visitor, 290 ; resigned his priorship, 291 ; is re-elected, 

 295 ! relinquishes again, 296 ; is pensioned, 298 ; the indenture delivered 

 to him, as sacrist, from the prior of Selborne [Appendix]. 



Besoms made of moss, 159. 



Bidwell on nests in which cuckoo lays, 102 note. 



Bilberry, 185 ; creeping or cranberry, 185. 



Bin's, or Bean's Pond, for what remarkable, 17. 



Birch, bleeding of, 348 note. 



Birds, summer, of passage, a list of, 37, 94 ; living ones ghewn here, when 

 from distant regions, why usually of the thick-billed genera, 69; of 

 summer passage, seen spring and autumn at Gibraltar, 72 ; soft-billed, 

 that winter with us, how supported, 86, 87 ; of winter passage, a list of, 

 95 ; that continue in full song till after midsummer, gb, 97 ; why fatten 

 in moderate frosts, 104 ; what sorts are pulveratrices, 108 ; what occasions 

 their congregating, iig ; in the season of nidification, tame, 152 ; various 

 manner of motion of, 187 ; notes and language of, 189. 



Birds, migration of, see Migration of birds ; of Wolmer pond, 19 ; on rigging 

 of ships, 3 1 ; best observed before the leaves are out, 38 ; monogamous, 

 67 ; pairing of, 67, hard-billed and soft-billed, 69 ; that are silent about 

 midsummer, 83 ; in Ascension, 79, 100 ; autumn-song of, 83 ; modes of 

 drinking of, 84 ; soft-billed that stay the year, 95 ; that sing in the night, 

 96 ; that are silent at midsummer, 98 ; that only sing very early, 98 ; 

 that are hardly to be called singing-birds, 98 ; that sing as they fly, 99 ; 

 that breed early, 99 ; double-brooded, 100; "methodus" of, 100; that 

 sing late, 100 ; song and incubation of, 100 ; in cages, loi ; soft-billed, 

 food of, 102 ; hard-billed, food of, 102 ; singing after midsummer, 103 ; 

 colours of, 107 ; young, sex of, hard to be distinguished, 107 ; flight and 

 gait of, 107, 187 ; that dust or wash, 108 ; of Ringmer, no, internal 

 migration of, in; song of, due to rivalry, 120; parental care of, 123; 

 and lice, 127 ; that are ill adapted for migration, 134 ; moulting-season 

 of, 148; nidification of, 152; congregating of, 119, 155; dispersion of, 

 182 ; that walk, 189 ; in snowy weather, 226 ; destroyed by long frost, 

 228 ; Observations on, 321 ; insect-eating, 321 ; their choice of food, 

 321 ; in severe weather, 321 ; of prey and insects, 321 ; grain-eating, can 

 subsist on leaves, 325 ; swimming of, 327 ; diving, 327 ; that build on 

 the ground, 330 ; sowing of beans by, 352. 



Bird's nest (Monotropa), 185. 



ophrys, 186. 



Bishop's Waltham, sand-martins at, 142. 



Black Act, 15. 



beetle, 337. 



