384 INDEX 



Vicars of Selborne, a list of, 252. 



Viper, blind-worm, and snake, some account of, 41. 



Viper, pregnant one, some circumstances about, 168. 



venom of, 41 ; eggs of, 42 ; said to admit her young into her throat, 42 ; 



fangs of, 169. 

 Virgil on bees drinking, 82 ; on dove, 93 ; on climate of Italy, 105 ; on swallow, 



136, 140 ; on sounds injurious to bees, 180. 

 Virgins commemorated by garlands, 244. 



VisiTATio NOTABiLis DE Seleburne, a cudous document abridged, 277. 

 Volcanic eruptions and haze, 233 note. 

 Volcano formed in 1783, 233. 



Wade, General, roads of, 89. 



Wagtails, with us in winter, 30, 81, 87 ; haunts and food of, in winter, 87, 95 ; 



their walk, 189 ; and cows, 332. 

 Wakes, the, at Selborne, ix. 



Waldon-lodge, what, and by whom kept up, 17. 

 Waller of Beaconsfield, a promoter of horticulture, 177. 

 Walpole, Horace, xxiv. 

 Walter de Insula, 276. 

 Waltham blacks much infested Wolmer-forest, 14 ; by their enormities 



occasioned the black act, 15. 



chase, 15. 



Walwort, 186. 



Warble, 328. 



Warbler, see Grasshopper lark and Sedge-bird. 



Ward-le-ham, i, 266 note ; King John at, 242 ; park, 17. 



Warton, Rev. Thomas, xi^; Joseph and Thomas, xi. 



Washing of birds, 109, 138, 144. 



Wasps, a pest in gardens, 231 ; and fowls, 321 ; habits of, 341. 



Wastes, of service to neighbourhood, 16. 



Watch-lights, 158. 



Water, cattle frequenting, 18; condensed by trees, 163 ; eft, 44; ouzel, no; 



rat, 62 ; shrew, 62 ; vole, 23. 

 Waterford, Henry, 263. 

 Waverley, sand-martin at, 330. 

 Waxwing, 27, 96. 

 Waynflete, William of, endeavours to reform the Priory of Selborne, 288 ; 



dissolves it, 301. 

 founds Magdalen College, Oxford, 301 ; death of, 306 ; obits ordained 



by. 307- 



Weasel (cane), 34 ; preys on moles, 83. 



Weather, its effect upon sounds, 180 ; and corn, 355 ; at Selborne, 222. 



Weaver's down, 8. 



Weevils, 337 note. 



Well-head, a fine perennial spring, 2, 241. 



Wells, their usual depth in Selborne village, 3. 



Welsh name of missel-thrush, 152. 



Weston, Thomas, prior of Selborne, 284. 



Whaddon chapel, where, 309. 



[Whame, see Fly.] 



Wheat-crops and hot summers, 352. 



