380 INDEX 



Senegal, swallows in, 80. 



Sexes of birds hard to distinguish in first plumage, 107. 



" Shakey " timber, 3. 



Sharp, John, appointed prior, 297. 



alias Glastenbury, prior of Selborne, 298, 299, 301, 308. 



Sheep, Sussex, horned and hornless, 133. 



close grazers, 16 ; when intent on grazing, 119 ; flocking together, 155 ; 



tear their coats in mild winters, 333 ; confusion among, after shearing, 



333- 

 Shingles, Selborne church mostly covered with, 249. 



on roofs, 308 note. 



Shore, T. W., on dew-ponds, 166 note, 167 note. 



Short Heath, 17. 



Shrew-ash, 161. 



Shrike, great grey, in Tisted park, 79 ; red-backed, its food, 46 ; a rare bird 



at Selborne, 80 ; woodchat, 60 note. 

 Shrubs, protection of, from frost, 222. 

 Siberian plants cultivated in England, 223. 

 Side-fly, 127. 

 Silk-tail, 27, 96. 

 Siskin, name of, in note. 

 Skunk, 59. 

 Skylark, sings early and late, 97 ; sings as it flies, gg ; dusting and washing 



of, log, 116 ; its movements while singing, i8g ; in severe weather, 321. 

 Slugs,' very injurious to wheat just come out of the ground, by eating off 



the blade ; and by their infinite numbers occasioning incredible havock, 



173- 

 Smell, animals recognised by, 333. 

 Smiters, a kind of pigeon, 188. 

 Smother-flies (aphides), 210, 231. 

 Snails and slugs, 345. 

 Snake, stinks se defendendo, 59, 



eat once in the year, 42 ; common in water, 42 ; its slough, 346. 



Snipes, their piping and humming, 23, 38, 81 and note. 



breeding of, 23, g6, 188 ; food of, loi ; make no nest, 330. 



Snooke, Mrs., of Ringmer, 108 note. 



Snow, heavy falls of, 222, 225, 228 ; a kindly meteor to vegetation, 222, 225. 



Snow-fleck [Snow-bunting], sometimes seen at Selborne, 61. 



Sociality in the brute creation, instances of, 155. 



Soft-billed birds, food of, gs ; list of such as stay with us the year round, 95. 



Solstices, winter and summer, 193. 



Somercotes, Thomas, 303. 



Song and incubation of birds, 100; of birds, due to rivalry, 120. 



birds, come under Passeres, gg ; why they cease to sing, 105. 



thrush breeds early, gg ; suffers by frost, 104. 



South Badeisley, 270. 

 South Downs, 132. 



' For the amazing ravages committed on turnips, wheat, clover, field cabbage- 

 seeds, etc. , by slugs, and a rational and easy method of destroying them, see a 

 sensible letter by Mr. Henry Vagg, of Chilcompton, in the county of Somerset, 

 lately made public at the request of the gentlemen of that neighbourhood. — G. W. 



