INDEX 379 



Roger, vicar of Selborne, 252. 



Roman coins found in Wolmer-pond, 239 ; at Blackmoor, 240 note. 



Rooks, perfectly white, 34 ; an amusing anecdote about, 219. 



breed early, 99; attended by daws and starlings, izo, 135; sensitive 



beak of, izo ; excursions of, 135 ; tumbling of, 188 ; attempts to sing of, 

 190 ; evenmg proceedings of, 219 ; in snowy weather, 226 ; mode of life 

 of, 322 ; and frozen sleet, 354. 



Rookery at Ringmer, 135. 



Roosting of poultry, turkeys, etc., 323. 



Royston crow, internal migration of, 96, 116. 



Rupert, Prince, ig and note. 



RuPERTA, whose daughter and wife, 19. 



RupiBus, or Roche, de la, Peter, who and what, 256. 



Rupture, superstitious cure for, 161. 



Rushes instead of candles, matter of much utility in humble life, 157. 



Rush-burners and rush-holders, 159 note. 



Rust balls, 8. 



Rutland, county of, what rain fell there, 113. 



Saffron, 187. 



Sallet, 178. 



Salt flesh in mediseval England, 176. 



Sand-martin, see Martin. 



Sandpiper, in southern counties, 46 ; wings of, i8g. 



Sap, flow of, 348. 



Saunford, Robert, grants from, to Selborne priory, 271. 



Saxifrage, opposite golden, i86. 



Saxon words surviving at Selborne, 241 note. 



Scale-insects (Coccus), 208. 



Scallops, or pectines, where found, 6. 



Scopoli, J. A., XV, 68, 70, 71, 106, 108; on martin, 70; on woodcock, 70, 



113 ; on swift, 150; on may-fly, 340. 

 Scotland, in what its maps are defective, 89. 

 Sea-birds, few at Selborne, 25. 



Secta molendini, claimed by the prior of Selborne, 310. 

 Sedge-bird [Sedge- warbler], some particulars about, 55, 59; more account 



of, 82 ; a delicate polyglot, loi, 106. 

 the lesser reed-sparrow of Ray, 59, 61 ; a summer migrant, 94; sings 



in the night, 82, 96 ; sings till July, 98 ; a soft-billed bird, 106. 

 Sedgwick on food of woodcock, loi note. 

 Seeds, dormant, 351. 

 Serrated claw of nightjar, 77. 

 Selborne parish, its situation and abuttals, i ; village, how circumstanced, 



2 ; the manor of, abounds with game, 9 ; parish of, of vast extent, why, 



9 ; rain, quantity of, considerable, why, 9 ; population, births and 



burials of, 10 ; produces near half the birds of Great Britain, 86 ; why a 



Saxon village, 241 ; becomes a market town, 265. 

 its variety of soil and elevation, xxvi ; its seclusion, xxvi ; its geology, 



xxvii ; White's History of, xxix. 



Priory, see Priory. 



Lord, on Romano-British antiquities of Selborne, 240 note, 317 note. 



Seleburn, 260. 



