INDEX 369 



Hellebores, 185 ; flowering of, 186. 



Helleborine, 186. 



Hemp seed, its effect on plumage of bullfinch, 34, 81. 



Hen, sitting on a shapeless stone, 104 ; parental care of, 123 ; notes of, 191 ; 



and ducklings, 334. 

 Hen-harrier breeds on the ground, 83 ; flight of, 188 ; and pheasant, 326. 

 Henry IH. grants lands to Selborne Priory, 259. 



de Blois, 270. 



Herbert on drumming of snipe, 81 note. 



Herissant, Monsieur, mistaken in his reason why cuckoos do not use 



incubation, 166. 

 Hermaphrodite animals, 345. 

 Heron, flight of, 188. 

 Heronry at Cressi Hall, 50, 52. 

 Hibernation in holes, not practised by sand-martin, 143 ; (supposed) of 



swallows and other birds, xviii, xxxi to xxxiv, 21, 28, 29, 53, 78, 114, 



121, 136, 174, 213, 216, 330, 331, 332 ; of insects, reptiles and quadrupeds, 



174. 

 Hills, walking, and travelling mountains, 194. 

 Hippobosca of swallow, 127 ; of swift, 149, 150, 207. 

 HiRUNDiNES, British, when they arrived in three very distant counties, 151. 



history of the British, 127 f. ; number of broods of, 148. 



Hirundo rupestris, 71. 



Hoadly, Bishop, refuses to restock Waltham chase, 15. 



Hochangre, see Oakhanger. 



Hogmer, 18. 



Hogs, would live, if suffered, to a considerable age, 170. 



Hollow lanes, 8. 



Holt, Ayles, a royal forest ; some account of, xxvii, 19, 20, 266 note, 



perambulation of, 17 ; measured, 17 note ; lop and top of, 20. 



Holt, Anne, mother of Gilbert White, ix. 



Thomas, rector of Streatham, ix. 



Holy Ghost Chapel at Basingstoke, destruction of, 314. 

 Honey-buzzard, nest, description and food of, 89 ; name of, 321. 



dew, 231 and note, 355 ; Hooker on, 232 note. 



Hoopoes, 24. 



Hops, soil good for, 3, 350 ; aphides on, 210. 



Horn-room at Wilton, 69. 



Horse and hen keeping company, 155, 



a dying, 334. 



Horse-bot, 74. 



Horses attacked by epidemic during frost of 1768, 223 ; poisoned by yew, 250. 



Horticulture, progress and effects of, 177. 



Hot summers of 1781 and 1783, 230 ; and wheat-crops, 352. 



Hounds, the king's, 335. 



House, vicarage, at Selborne, 249. 



House-cricket, see Cricket. 



dove derived from rock-dove, 91. 



flies, 342. 



martin, see Martin. 



sparrow, see Sparrow. 



Howe, General, 19. 



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