364 INDEX 



Daws breed in unlikely places, 48. 



see Jackdaws. 



De Geer, xiii, xiv. 



De Rupibus (Peter), founder of Selborne Priory, 256. 



Deer, red, in Wolmer-forest, some account of, 13 ; fallow, in Holt-forest, 20 ; 



fallow, their spiracula, or breathing places, 32. 



association of with cows, 155. 



Deer-stealers, 15. 



Derham, xv, xxv ; on migration of frogs, 40. 



Dew-ponds, 163. 



Dickens on rush-burners, 159 note. 



Dipper, no. 



Diptera not torpid in winter, 336. 



Diseases caused by bad diet, 176. 



Dispersion op birds, pretty equal, why, 182. 



Distant on assimilative coloration, 34. 



Diver, great speckled, in Wolmer-forest, 326. 



Divers (birds), walk of, 189 ; swimming of, 326. 



Dogs, Chinese, from Canton, 217. 



blinded by gossamer, 153 ; fattened in China for eating, 217 ; of South 



America, fed for the table, 217 ; of Pacific Islands, bred upon vegetables, 



217 ; ears of, 218 ; used to draw sledges, 218 ; refuse bones of game, 



218; and of carrion-birds, 218. 

 DoMESDAY-BOOK, account of Selborne from, 240. 



silent respecting churches, 243. 



Dorton, or Durton, mill at, 258, 310 ; common at, 269 note. 



Dove, ring, see Ring-dove. 



Dove, stock, or wild winter-pigeon, 80 ; stock, many particulars of, from 90 



to 93. 

 Doves, cooing of, 190. 

 Dove-house of a manor, 310. 

 Dove-houses at Culver-croft, 316. 

 Downs, Sussex, a lovely range, 132. 



sheep on, 133. 



Drey, squirrel's nest, 334. 



Drinking of bats, 26 ; of swallows, 138 ; of swallows and swifts, 82. 



Dripping weather after drought and crops, 355. 



Drumlanrig, 89. 



Duck, wild, a winter bird of passage, 96 ; migration of, 115 ; with arms of 



King of Denmark on its collar, 115 ; gait of, 189; wings of, 189; noisy 



and loquacious, 190; sexual distinction of voice, 191. 

 Ducks and geese rest on the water, 323. 

 Dugdale on Selborne Priory, 259. 

 Duncun, Gunnorie, 269. 



Eagle-owl, 61. 

 Eagles, notes of, igo. 

 Earthquakes of 1783, 233. 



Earthworms, life of, 173, 344; promoters of vegetation, 172. 

 Eastbourne, wheatears at, 135. 



Echo, a polysyllabical one, 178 ; why since mute, 181 ; several remarks on 

 echoes, 178, 181 ; a charming description of echoes from Lucretius, 181. 



