INDEX 



471 



Phalaena quercus, 429. 



Pheasants, 1 2 ; pursued by hen 

 harrier, 412. 



Pheasant, hybrid, 410. 



Phryganea {see Caddis-fly). 



Pigeon, wood {see Woodpigeon) ; 

 drinking, 89 ; blue rock, 96. 



Pigs, eating their young, 132 ; 

 length of life in, 182; eating 

 yewberries without injury, 271. 



Pine plantations, near Glasgow, 94. 



Pitanciae, 307. 



Planting evergreens, 243. 



Plants, at Selborne, 1 99 ; suffer 

 from heat and cold, 241, 249. 



Plestor, the, 6, 288 ; great oak in, 

 288. 



Plover, 219. 



Plowman, Piers, 3 1 6. 



Plumpton Plain, 141. 



Poaching at night, 19, 24, 



Poll sheep, 142. 



Pollard-ash, children cured of 

 rupture by, 1 74 ; in the Plestor, 

 174. 



Ponds, on chalkhills, 177. 



Pope Martin confiscates property 

 of Selborne Priory, 314. 



Poplar, Lombardy, 439. 



Portugal laurels, 243. 



Poultry, 206 ; their notes and lan- 

 guage, 409 ; roosting places of, 

 409 ; destroying a hawk, 206, 

 207. 



Prayers for the dead, 288, 299, 339, 

 380. 



Preceptores, meaning of, 298. 



Prior, election of a, 301, 319, 321, 

 322, 327. 



Priors of Selborne, list of, 331. 



Priories, alien, 282. 



Priory of Selborne, in debt, 

 310; property of, 314; seques- 

 trated, 314, 320 ; reduced to a 

 chantry, 340. 



Prophecy of Piers Plowman, 316. 



Ptinus Pectinkomis, 407, 426. 



Puckeridge {see Fern-owl). 



Puffins, 5 3 ; breed on flat ground, 



53- 



Pu/ex irri/ans {hed-&esi), 153. 



Punishment of canons for misbe- 

 haviour, 309. 



Puritanism at Selborne, 275. 



Purlieus, 22. 



Quails, 12, 35. 

 Queen's bank, 17. 

 Quicksilver mines, men working 

 in, 113. 



Rabbits, in Wolmer Forest, 19 ; 

 make the best turf, 422. 



Rainfall at Selborne, 12, 56, 239 ; 

 in Rutland, 1 20, 244 ; effect of 

 trees on, 1 76 ; compared with 

 Plymouth, 239. 



Rana arborea (tree-frog), 44. 



Rats, water, two kinds, 27. 



Ravens, building in the Plestor 

 oak, 7 ; close sitting of, 7 ; driv- 

 ing vultures from their nests, 



131- 

 Redbreast, 108, iio; tame, singmg 



by candlelight, 1 08 ; song of, 



88 ; autumn songster, 88 ; food 



of, 89, 92. 

 Red deer, 1 7 ; in Wolmer Forest, 



1 7 ; never seen in Holt Forest, 



24. 

 Redstart, 29, 41, 143 ; arrival of, 

 407 ; motion of tail o^ 88 ; song 



of, 90. 

 Redwing, 26; feeding in winter, 



407 ; not breeding in England, 



119; migration o^ 125; killed 



by frost, 242. 

 Reed-bunting, 1 1 3. 

 Reed-sparrow, (>(>, 1 11, 113; food 



of, 113 ; song of, 114. 

 Reed-wren, 63. 



Regulus non crisiatus {see Willow- 

 wren). 

 Relics of Selborne priory, 317. 

 Reptiles, stinking se defendendo, 



64. 



