366 INDEX 



Ferrol, John, 253 note, 



Ffarnham, Walter, 284. 



Field-cricket, history of, ig6. 



Field-mouse, with young, 124 ; its mode of opening a nut, 214. 



Fieldfares, strange that they do not breed in England, 60 ; nor in Scotland, 

 60 ; roost on the ground, 64. 



migration of, 30, 96, 116 ; perching and roosting of, 96 ; retire in spring, 



112 ; breed in Sweden, 113; nest of, 113, 117; food of, 321. 



Fire-flies, 58 note. 



Firestone, 7. 



Fisher, William, vicar of Selborne, 253. 



Fishes, gold and silver, why very amusing in a glass bowl, 210. 



of Wolmer Forest, 18; of Selborne, 25. 



Flamingo, compared with black-winged stilt, 203. 



Fleas in sand-martins' holes, 143. 



Flies, plague of, in 1783, 233 ; walking of, 342. 



Flight of birds, 187; of insects, 200. 



Flocking of birds, 112, iig ; of hen chaffinches, 112 ; of linnets, 112 ; ofrooks 

 and daws, 120 ; of rooks and starlings, 120. 



Fly, bacon, injurious to the housewife, 74; Whame or burrel, Oestrus 

 curvicauda, 74. 



Fly-catcher, some particulars of, 22, 25, 37, 67, 86, 94, 123, 321. 



Fog (dry), of 1783, 232 ; reflection by, 355. 



Foliage of trees lasting late, 117. 



Folkestone beds, 3 note, 8. 



Food of man, 183. 



Forest-fly, 127 ; stone, 8. 



Forests, and water-supply, 163 ; royal, xxvii, 12, 241, 266 note. 



Forms, five, respecting the chusing a prior, 275. 



Forrest, on flocks of starlings, 119 note. 



Fort William, 8g. 



Fossils of Selborne, 5. 



Fothergill on cultivation in England of shrubs from N. America, 223. 



Fowler, W. Warde, on Gilbert White, vicar of Selborne, ix ; on Sampson 

 White, ix ; on Gilbert White's relations to his college and the church, 

 xi ; on White and protective resemblance, xxiii ; on White's view of 

 the migration of birds, xxxi. 



Fowls, 108 ; and wasps, 321. 



Freestone (upper greensand), 2, 7. 



Freezing of fluids in capillary tubes, 227 note. 



French, prolix in natural history, 68. 



Frinsham pond, 79. 



Frogs, 39 ; migrate from pools, 40 ; Swammerdam on, 40. 



Frost, that in January, 1768, described, 222 ; that in January, 1776, 225, 

 that in December, 1784, 228. 



birds that first suffer by, 104 ; effect of in fattening, 104 ; protection of 



shrubs from, 222 ; and evergreens, 222, 224, 228, 229 ; advances gradu- 

 ally, but may end suddenly, 224 ; and rainfall, 225 ; partial, 227, 353. 



Frostbites, 230. 



Frozen sleet and rooks, 354. 



Fruit-trees injured by heat, 231. 



Furze killed by frost, 230 ; range of, 230 note. 



