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INDEX 



Comb, kept for the use of hinds, 

 318. 



Conduit wood, 341. 



Cornish choughs, 85, 1 17. 



Corn mill at Selborne, 343. 



Comua Ammonis, 8. 



Corrodies, meaning o^ 307. 



Corvus monedula {see Jackdaw). 



Country-made candles, 1 69. 



Cows congregating, 166. 



Cranberry, 199. 



Cranmer lake, 22. 



Cress! Hall heronry, 55, 57. 



Cricket, eggs of, 212 ; field 212, 

 389 ; sex pf, 213; wings of, 2 1 3, 

 216; chirping of, 212, 214; 

 fen {see Cricket, mole) ; mole, 

 217; house, 215; tame, 215; 

 food of, 216; habits of, 216; 

 to destroy, 216; nest and eggs 

 of, 218; chewing the cud, 218; 

 cry of, 2 1 6. 



Crocus {Sativus crocus), spring and 

 autumnal, 201. 



Cross bills, 29, 116, 144. 



Cyprlnus auratus (gold fish), 228. 



Crow, 85 ; grey or hooded, 89. 



Cuckoo, 109; choosing a nest, 109; 

 eggs o^ no, III ; skimming 

 flight of, 116; food o^ 116, 

 123; in nest of tit-lark, 116; 

 reared by Alauda pratensis, 123; 

 sings in different keys, 124 ; 

 when it sings, hawks do not 

 prey on other birds, 162 ; ana- 

 tomy, 178 ; why it does not 

 hatch eggs, 178. 



Cuckoo, pint, the, 39. 



Cucumbers, set by bees, 442. 



Curlew, stone {see Stone curlew). 



Daker-hen {see Landrail). 



Danewort 201. 



Daphne laureola (springe laurel) 



Mezereum (Mezereon), 200. 

 Daw {see Jackdaw). 

 Daws, breeding places o^ 52. 

 Deafness of Gilbert White, 163. 



Decay of Selborne Priory, 320. 

 Deeds dated on Sunday, 300. 

 Deer, fallow {see Fallow deer) ; 



moose {see Moose deer) ; red 



{see Red deer) ; hunting, 18; 



killing a dog, 19. 

 Deer, breathing spiracula of, 37 ; 



stealers, 18, 24. 

 Desecration of Communion Tables, 



309. 

 Destruction of martins, 140. 

 Destructive frosts, 36, 240, 244, 



246. 

 Dew collected by trees, 175. 

 Dipsacus pilosus (Small teasel), 200. 

 Disease in cattle, caused by Oestrus 



bovis, 416. 

 Diver or loon, 413 ; gait of, 415. 

 Doe, brought up with cows, 167 ; 



tame, chased by dogs, 167. 

 Dogs, killed by deer, 19; blinded 



by cobwebs, 164; Chinese, 235; 



of South America dumb, 235 ; 



ears of, 235 ; fed on vegetables, 



235 ; refusing to eat birds that 



they hunt, 236. 

 Dove-ring {see Ring-dove) ; Stock 



{see Stock-dove). 

 Dover burnt by the French, 292. 

 Dove, stock, 96 ; house, 96 ; de- 

 rived from blue rock pigeon, 96 ; 



ring, reared by pigeons, 98 ; and 



pigeons, cross between, 98 ; 



house at Selborne Priory, 343. 

 Downs, South, 141 ; sheep on the, 



142. 

 Dragonfly, 116, 154. 

 Dress of Canons in 1387, protest 



of Bishop Wykeham against, 



308. 

 Drinking, mode o^ in deer and 



horses, 37. 

 Drosera rotundifolia (round-leaved 



sundew), 200 ; lonfffolia, 200. 

 Ducks, wild, 23, 29; King of 



Denmark's, found in England, 



122. 

 Dung of cattle, food for fish, 22. 



