360 INDEX 



Black canons, 257 note. 



dolphin (turnip flea), 74. 



grouse, 13. 



malm (chloritic marl), 2. 



" Black Spring " of 1771, 356. 



Blackbird, sings in autumn, 83 ; sings as it flies, 99 ; destroyed by frost, 228. 



Black-cap, an elegant songster, 85, loi. 



a summer migrant, 23, 38, 67, 94 ; its arrival, 67, 321 ; sings after mid- 

 summer, 97 ; ill-provided for long flights, 134. 



Blackmoor or Blackmore, 254, 316 ; farm of, 17 ; oaks of, 3 ; Roman corns 

 found at, 240 note. 



Blackthorn, winter, 350. 



Blackwall on gossamer, 154 note. 



Black-winged stilt, 202. 



Blakemere, 271. 



Blindworm, 41. 



Blue rag, 7. 



Boars in Wolmer-forest, 20; effect of loss of tusks on, 170. 



Bog-wood of Wolmer-forest, 12, 219. 



Bohemian chatterer, 27, 96. 



Bombylius, 342. 



Booby, 100. 



Boots, wearing of, 281. 



Bot-fly, 341. 



Botany, its uses, 183. 



Boughton, Richard, vicar of Selborne, 253. 



Boussingault on honey-dew, 232 note. 



Bosvers on St. Barnaba's feast, 16. 



Boy, an idiot, his strange propensity, 160 ; eats bees, &c., 160. 



Bradeseth, 271. 



Brady, G. S., on fauna of dew-ponds, 167 note. 



Brambling, see Snow-fleck. 



Brampton, Henry, alias Brompton, 284. 



Bramshot, i, 12. 



Breadalbane, seat of Lord, 8g. 



Brighthelmstone, bustards on downs near, no. 



Brimstone-lodge, some account of, 17. 



Bristowe, Duncombe, vicar of Selborne, his bequests, 256. 



British Museum, xiii. 



British Zoology, Pennant's, 60. 



Bromesgrove, John, 293. 



Brompden, 260. 



Brooks at Selborne, what fishes they produce, 25. 



Brown owl, castings of, 25. 



Bryan Galfrid, 294. 



Bucks and does, herd separately in winter, 112. 



Buffon, xiii, xiv, 55 note. 



Bug, harvest, some account of, 73. 



Bull of Innocent VIII., 305 ; of Pope Martin, 286. 



Bullfinch, turns black, 34, 81. 



• song of, 99. 



Bull's head (fish), 25. 



