INDEX 



467 



Hawks, 2 8 ; casting up feathers, 

 29; migration of, I2l; do not 

 prey while cuckoo is heard, 1 62. 



Haws, a food for birds, 32; failure 

 of, 32. 



Haze, or smoky fog, 251. 



Hazel wych, 6. 



Heat, intense, 250J spoiling fruit, 

 250; effects o^ on hybernating 

 animals, 186. 



Heathcock, formerly plentiful, 1 7. 



Heathfires, 20. 



Hedgehog, 675 food of, 67; spines 

 of, 68 ; young of, 67. 



Hedge-sparrow and the cuckoo, 

 III. 



Heliotropes, summer and winter, 

 208. 



Helkborus foetidus (stinking helle- 

 bore), 199, 387; viridis (green 

 hellebore), 199, 388; niger, 201, 

 388; hellebores, order of bloom- 

 ing, 201 ; hyemalis, 201, 388. 



Helleborine, 200, 395. 



Hempseed for birds, 39, 86. 



Hen harrier, 88, 412. 



Hen and horse, friendship of, 167 ; 

 and ducklings, 423. 



Hen, common, 206. 



Henry III. grants lands to Selborne 

 Priory, 281. 



Heronry at Cressi Hall, 55, 57. 



Hills and mountains, moving, 209 ; 

 attracting clouds, 253. 



Himantopus, 219, 220. 



Htffoboscae hirundinis, 135, 223. 



Hirundo hybema, 75; rupestris, 75 ; 

 alpina, 77 ; melba, 77 ; escuknto, 

 151; riparia, 1 5 1 {see also 

 Swallow, Martin, and Swift). 



Hogmer, lake, 22. 



Hogs, age of, 182. 



Hollow lane leading to Alton, 1 1. 



Holt Forest, 19, 21,23; ironstone 

 in, 10; deer in, 18, 24. 



Holy Ghost Chapel, Basingstoke, 

 destruction of, 348. 



Home-made candles, 169. 



Honey-buzzard, 94, 408, 

 Honey-dew, 251, 446. 

 Hoopoe, 29. 



Hoopoes at Selborne, 29 ; migra- 

 tion o^ 121. 

 Hops, 441 ; suitable soil for, 5 ; 



at Selborne, 14, 163. 

 Hornets, 431. 



Horns at Lord Pembroke's, 73. 

 Horse, botfly, 79 ; and hen, 400, 



431 ; friendship between, 167; 



should not be kept in solitude, 



166; anecdote of, 423. 

 Horticulture, spread of, 190. 

 House martins {see Martins, 



house); swallow {see Swallow, 



house). 

 Howe, General, machinery made 



by, 24. 

 Humming in the air, 426. 

 Hunger, power of, 118, 126. 

 Hunting condemned by Bishop 



Wykeham, 306. 

 Hybernation of swallow, 26; swift, 



26. 

 Hypericum androsaemum (Tutsan, or 



St. John's wort), 200. 



Ichneumon fly, 432. 



Icthyology, 53. 



Icy speculae in the air, 249. 



Idiot boy and bees, 172. 



Incongruous companions, 127. 



Incubation of birds, 1 1 1 . 



Indian grass, 56. 



Insectivorous birds, 408. 



Insect pests, 78, 79 ; appearing in 

 hot weather, 186; insensible to 

 sound, 194; hybernation of, 

 215; life of, 214; diffusion of, 

 225, 226; appearing in frosts, 

 246. 



Insects, 425. 



Instinct, 61, 131-2, 149, 231; of 

 young animals, 1 80. 



Inundations rendering land poor, 

 184. 



Ireland and its natural history, 93. 



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