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INDEX 



Fowls, wild, in Wolmer Forest, 1 6. 

 Foxes in Wolmer Forest, 21. 

 Freestone, analogous to chalk, 4 ; 



grows shaky wood, 5 ; its uses, 9. 

 French naturalists, 72. 

 Fringilla (hard-billed), 92 ; caelebs 



{see Chaffinch). 

 Frogs, 43 ; breeding of, 44 ; swarm 



of, cause of, 44 ; migrating of, 44. 

 Frosts, lying longer on bog oaks, 



16; severe, 36, 240, 244, 246; 



birds fattening during, HI; 



effects oi, on animals, ill; effect 



of, on birds. III; partial, 445. 

 Fruit crop, 163. 



Gallinae, walk of, 203; roost high, 

 409. 



Gallows Hill, 350. 



Gardening among the Saxons, 190. 



Garlands, in churches in honour of 

 virgins, 264. 



Garrulus Bohemicus (German silk- 

 ^ tail), 32. 



Gassendus, quotation from, on 

 music, 232. 



Gasterosterus fungit'ius {see Stickle- 

 back) ; aculeatus {see Stickleback). 



Gentian, 200. 



Geniiana amartlla (gentian or fell- 

 work), 200. 



Geology of Selborne, 4, 8, 9. 



German-boars, 25 ; silk-tail, 32. 



Gibraltar, migration of birds to, 

 76. 



Gill covers ol Mud Iguana, 45, 



Gipsies, language of, 168. 



Gizzard of landrail, 41 1 ; of birds, 

 109. 



Glow-worm, 62, 434. 



Gnats on the snow, 407. 



Goats breathing through their ears, 



38- 

 Goatsucker, 55, 82, 112, 415, 

 417; food of, 416; does not in- 

 jure cattle, 416; egg o^ 417; 

 feeding by means of its foot, 82 ; 

 anatomy of, 179. 



Goiius^ui>iaa/iscapilatus(h\i\\-heiid), 



29. 

 Goldfinch, 1 1 o. 

 Goldfish, 227. 



Gold-crested wren {see Wren). 

 Golden thrushes, 121. 

 Golden maiden-hair, brush of, 



Gossamer, a shower of, 1 64 ; origin 

 of, 165. 



Gracious street, 350. 



Grallae, legs of, 69 ; food of, 125. 



Graminivorous birds eating vege- 

 tables, 412. 



Grange, the, 349. 



Grass, uses of, 198. 



Grasshopper, 213; lark, 41, 49, 

 60, 87. 



Gravel in birds' crops, 412. 



Graves under trees, 273, 



Great Britain, birds of, 91. 



Greatham farm, 19, 21. 



Green lizard, 46, 54. 



Gregarious habits of horses and 

 cows, 1 66. 



Grosbeak, 29; food of, 421. 



Gryllus campestris (field-cricket), 

 393; domesticus (house-cricket), 

 2 1 5, 428 ; Gryllus gryllo talpa 

 (mole-cricket), 392. 



Guernsey lizard, 57. 



Gurdon, Sir Adam, 284; marriage 

 of, 285; rebellion of, 291; 

 menace against the English 

 language, 292 ; death of, 293 ; 

 seal of, 293. 



Haggard falcon, 234. 

 Hailstorm at Selborne, 254. 

 Hampton Bridge, 7. 

 Hanger, the, 4, 12, 442. 

 Hares, 12, 244; white, 65. 

 Harvest mouse {see Mouse, harvest); 



bug, 78. 

 Hawkley hanger, 210. 

 Hawk, sparrow, strange, 28 ; blue, 



412; ringtail, anatomy of, 179; 



destroyed by poultry, 207. 



