INDEX 361 



Bunting, a very rare bird at Selborne, 30, gg, iii. 



cirl, 30 note; common, 30; song of, gg ; common along coast, iii. 



Burials at Selborne Church, 249. 



Burning of heaths, i6. 



Burrel, see Fly. 



Burton on migration of birds, xxxii. 



Biisgen on honey-dew, 232 note. 



Bustard, its timidity, 100; on downs near Brighthelmstone, no. 



Butcher-bird, red-backed, 46, 80. 



great grey, jg. 



Butt -close, 308 note. 



Butt-wood-close, 308. 



Buzzards, honey, some account of, 8g. 



flight of, 188. 



Byfield, Richard, vicar of Selborne, his bequest, 254. 



Cabbages known to our Saxon ancestors, 177. 



Calabria and Sicily, earthquakes in, 233. 



Calculus asgogropila, 7^. 



Cambridgeshire, spires- of, 50. 



Canaries, how to naturalise, 28. 



Cancer, said to be cured by toads, 44, 4g. 



Cane, a weasel, 34. 



Cane, William Henry, vicar of Selborne, 255. 



Canons regular, 257 note. 



Canwood, Henry, 297. 



Capons have small combs, i6g. 



Caprimulgus, or fern-owl, some new observations about, 77. 



Carder-bee, 340. 



Carew on migration of birds, xxxiii. 



Carniola, birds of, 70, 106, 108 ; quicksilver mines of, 106. 



Carp, in ponds on Wolmer-forest, 18 ; habits of, 85. 



Carpenter, Richard, preceptor of Sudington, 271, 273. 



Castration, its strange effects, i6g. 



Cat suckles a leveret, 171 ; electric during frost, 230 ; and squirrels, 334. 



Cats, house, strange that they should be so fond of fish, 68. 



catch swifts on the wing, 150 ; and hearth-crickets, 200 ; running out 



for shot sparrows, 323. 

 Cattle resorting to water, 18 ; sociality of, 155 ; poisoned by yew, 250 ; and 



wagtails, 332. 

 Celery httle known in England in 1663, 178. 

 Chafers or tree-beetles, 117, 336. 

 Chaffinch silent before midsummer, g8 ; subsists on hard food, 102 ; cuckoo's 



egg in nest of, 102 ; nest of, 214. 

 Chaffinches, vast flocks of hens, 29, 35, 81 ; hens, more account of, 112. 

 Chalk of Selborne, 2 note. 

 Chalk-hills, why peculiarly beautiful, 133. 

 Chalk-marl of Selborne, 2 note. 



Chandler, Dr. Richard, life of, xx ; on lime-blossoms, 350. 

 Chantries, 273 note. 

 Chantry-services, 280. 

 Chapel-farm, 260, 309. 



