INDEX 381 



Southington, or Sudington, 270, 271. 

 Sow, prodigious fecundity of one, 170. 



Sparrow, hedge, flirt with their wings in breeding-time, 83 ; their piping 

 noise, 83 ; their food, 87. 



house, building of, 84 ; dusts and washes, 109 ; expelled by swift, expels 



martins, 145. 

 hawk breeds in old crows' nests, 83 ; nest and larder of, 90 ; and brood- 

 hens, 192. 



Sphinx ocellata, 340. 



Spider, threads emitted by, 154 ; and ichneumon, 341. 



Spires, necessary ingredients in an elegant landscape, 50. 



Sprat loons, 327. 



Spring Gardens, exhibition of birds in, 24. 



Spring of 1739-40, 106 ; of 1770-71, 136. 



Springs at Selborne, 2. 



Sprout-cale, 177. 



Spurge laurel, 186. 



Squirrel, its mode of opening a nut, 214 ; suckled by a cat, 334, 



Stag-hunt in Wolmer-forest, 14. 



Starhngs and rooks, 120 ; and lapwings, 120 ; flight of, 188. 



Stawel, Lord, ig. 



Stepe, or Stype, John, 284 ; prior of Selborne, 288 ; death of, 290. 



Stephen de Lucy, 259. 



Stickleback at Selborne, 25 ; species of, 43. 



StiUingfleet, xv ; on wheatear, 30. 



Stilt, black-winged, or stilt plover, 202. 



Stock-dove, mode of life of, 80, 91 ; appears late, 96, 117; formerly abounded 

 at Selborne, 117. 



Stone, free, its uses and advantages, 7 ; rag, its qualities and uses, 7 ; sand, 

 or forest, 8 ; yellow or rust colour, 8. 



Stone-chatter, though a soft-billed bird, stays with us round the year, 81, 95 ; 

 common along the coast in autumn, in. 



Stone curlew, some account of, 35 ; farther account of, 72. 



protective resemblance of, xxiii, 36 ; a summer migrant, 38, 72, 94 ; 



congregates in vast flocks in autumn, 47 ; egg of, 59 ; clamouring of, 

 63 ; in Andalusia, 73 ; note of, 219, 328 ; habits of, 328. 



Stonehenge, jackdaws nesting in, 48. 



SropyTi OF ANIMALS, several instances of, 123. 



Storm-cock (missel- thrush), 80. 



Stratfield, William, 293, 295. 



Stratford, bishop of Winchester, 275. 



Stretford, alias Paynell, William, 291. 



Stuart, Sir Simeon, gives a bell to Selborne church, 248. 



Stubb, Laurence, 307. 



Sudington, a preceptory, 269. 



Summer birds of passage, lists of, 37, 94. 



Summers, 1781 and 1783, unusually sultry, 230. 



Sun^dews, 185. 



Sunday, ancient deeds dated on, 274 note. 



Superstitions, 161. 



Surbedding of stone, 7. 



Sussex, Downs of, 2, no, 132 ; meanly furnished with churches, 49 ; sheep of, 



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