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INDEX 



Ring-dove, g6, 109, 123 ; food of, 

 109, 412 ; nidification of, 163. 



Ring-ouzel, 32, 36, 50, 53, 59, 65, 

 74, 123, 144; migration of, 51, 

 53, 59, 62, 65, 74,83, 1 17; food 

 of, 51, 59; breeding places in 

 England, 85. 



Roads, at Selborne, new, made by 

 Gilbert White, 277. 



Roche, Peter de la, or de Rupibus, 

 founds Selborne priory, 278 ; 

 Bishop of Winchester, 278. 



Rocks removed by rain, 254. 



Roman remains found at Selborne, 

 23, 260. 



Romulus and Remus, 184. 



Roofs of houses, various, 341. 



Rooks, 144, 237; nesting of, 388, 

 408; white, 38; power of smell 

 in, 127; frozen, 446. 



Royal forests, origin of, 262. 



Royston crow, 123. 



Rupert, Prince, 24. 



Ruptured children placed in pol- 

 lard ashes, 1 74. 



Rush candles, 1 69 ; to make, 1 70. 



Rutland, fall of rain in, 120, 244. 



Saffron, 201. 



Salad oil as a cure for viper's sting, 



45- 



Salamandra aquatica (water-newt, or 

 eft), 45. 



Salicaria, 39, 59, 63 ; fen (reed- 

 wren), 63, 66. 



Sallad or Sallet, 191. 



Salmo-fario (trout), 39. 



Salt meat causing leprosy, 189. 



Sambucus ebulus (dwarf elder), 201, 

 398. 



Sand-martins {see Martins, Sand) ; 

 sand-pits in Wolmer forest, 152. 



Sandpiper, 50. 



Saxon words, meaning of, 261. 



Scallops, 9. 



Scarabaeusso/sti/ialis (seeFeinchnkis) 

 397; melolontha, 393, \\'] \ fullo, 



59- 



Scopoli, Dr., 74, 76, 113, 115. 



Scotland, maps of, 94. 



Sea-birds, 29. 



Seal of Gurdon, 293. 



Sedge-bird, 63 ; note of) 63, 108 ; 

 singing at night, 87. 



Selborne Parish, 3 ; village, 4 ; soil 

 of, 4, 5 ; streams in, 4 ; fossils 

 at, 8 ; extent of, 12; cottages 

 in, salubrity o^ 1 2 ; fall of rain 

 in, 12, 56, 239; occupation of, 

 14; population, 1 3 ; in Saxon 

 times, 260; value of the living, 

 273; vicar of, before Domesday 

 Book, 274. 



Selborne Priory, property of, 289, 

 314; decay o^ 333, 337, 340, 

 347 ; rivulet, 343 ; account of) 

 344; ruins of, 348; importance 



of, 35>- 

 Serpents (see Snakes). 

 Sex of birds, 1 14. 

 Sexes, distinguishing features of the, 



114; separation of, during win- 

 ter, 118. 

 Shearing sheep, 422. 

 Sheep, feeding before rain, 126; of 



Sussex, 142; congregating, 167. 

 Shingles on roof, 270. 

 Short-winged birds of passage, 33, 



42, 407. 

 Shrew, water, 66; ash, 174 ; mouse, 



174. 

 Shrikes (butcher-bird), 50, 85. 

 Silk-wood, 171 ; tail, German, 32 ; 



worm, intestines of, used for 



fishing tackle, 56. 

 Silver fish, 227. 

 Sitta Europoea {see Nuthatch) 

 Skunk, 64. 

 Skylark {see lark). 

 Slugs, 435; injurious to wheat, 



185. 

 Smell, animals recognised by, 422. 

 Smoky atmosphere, cause of, 239. 

 Smother flies, 226, 251. 

 Snails, 222, 435 ; shells eaten by 



birds, 411. 



