INDEX 377 



Plants, time of blooming of, i86. 



Plestoe, the, in the midst of the village, what, 4, 264, 265, 266. 



shrew-ash on, 162. 



Plot, Dr., on surhedding stone ; on firestone, 7 note ; his rule for echoes, 179. 



Plover, the stilt, a rare and curious bird, 202. 



Plumage, colour of, affected by food, 34. 



Plumpton-plain, near Lewes, Ray on, 132. 



Pochard, a resident and winter visitant, g6 note. 



Pond, Wolmer, its measurement, fowls, etc., 18. 



Ponds on elevations, why seldom dry, 164. 



named after extinct animals, 18 note. 



frequented by cattle, 18. 



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

 Porch, church, its gothic arch and folding-doors, 248. 

 Portugal laurels untouched by frost, 224, 228, 229 note ; scorched by frost of 



1784, 229. 

 Poultry, sagacity of, 323 ; roosting of, 323. 

 Powlet, of Rotherfield House, 265. 

 Preceptorv, an unnoticed one at Selborne, 270 ; an attempt to explain what 



a preceptory was, 272. 

 Preston, James, 302 to 305. 

 Prince Rupert, a mechanic and artist, ig. 

 Prior, forms for election of, 275. 

 Priories, alien, 259, 260. 

 Priors of Selborne, a list of, 299, 300. 

 Priory of Selborne, when and by whom founded, 256 ; how endowed at 



first, 259 ; its present state, 313. 



reduced to a chantry, 307. 



farm, 254, 313. 



Protective resemblance of stone-curlew, xxiii, 36, 73, 107 note. 



Ptinus, 336. 



Puckeridge, 328. 



Puffins, building underground, 48. 



Purlieu, 17. 



Putworth, Richard, 284. 



Quadrupeds, Observations on, 333. 

 Quails, 9 ; on south coast, 30. 

 Queen Anne in Wolmer-forest, 14. 

 Queen's bank, why so called, 14. 

 Quicksilver mines of Carniola, 106. 



Rabbits and turf, 334. 



Rabbys, William, 304. 



Radfredus the presbyter, 243. 



Radiation of heat under a clear sky, 224 note. 



Ragstone, 7. 



Rain, the mean of, not to be ascertained at any place till after many years, 



9 note ; what has fallen at Selborne of late years, 9 ; that of Selborne 



compared with that of Plymouth, 220. 

 Rainfall of 1769, 52 ; of 1774 and 1764, 141 ; of spring of 1774, 194 ; of 



Jutland, 113, 



