INDEX 



473 



Snakes {jee also Vipers), 435 ; feed- 

 ing once a year, 46 ; English, 

 45 ; stink, 64 ; tame, 64 ; eggs 

 of, 45. 



Snipes, 27, 42 ; in Wolmer Forest, 

 16, 86; make no nest, 418; 

 stomach of, 108. 



Snowflake, 39, 65 ; storms, 241, 



Sociality of animals, 166; of dif- 

 ferent natures, 183. 



Soft-billed birds, migration of, 36, 

 loi ; non-migratory, list of, 

 1 01 ; food of, 91. 



Soil, curious, 5; good for timber, 

 5 ; Wolmer and Holt Forests, 

 24 ; chalky and sandy, subject 

 to heat, 251. 



Solstice, summer and winter, 208. 



Song-birds, 104, 105, 107, no; 

 migration of, 100, 118; non- 

 migratory, loi ; night, 103 ; list 

 of, 104 ; loss of voice in, 112. 



Song of thrush, 88 ; of blackbird, 

 88 ; of willow wren, 88 ; wood 

 lark, 88. 



Sounds, association of, 214. 



Sow, 25; fecundity of the, 182; 

 age of, 182. 



Spain, birds migrating to, 35. 



Spaniels, 236. 



Sparrow hawk, 88, 95 ; hedge, 91 ; 

 flight of, 88 ; food of, 91 ; house, 

 71; cleaning themselves, 116; 

 taking sand-martin's nest, 154; 

 nidification o^ 88. 



Speckled diver, 413. 



Sphynx ocellata, 430. 



Spiders, making gossamer webs, 

 165; flying, 165. 



Spindle trees, 89. 



Spiracula of fallow deer, 37. 



Sporting, inherent in mankind, 1 8, 

 306; dogs, training of, 236. 



Spring, black, 448. 



Sprout-cale, February so called by 

 Saxons, 190. 



Spurge laurel, 200, 391. 



Squirrel, suckled by a cat, 423; 



eating nuts, 231. 

 Stag, nostrils of, 37. 

 Stag-hunt in Wolmer Forest, 17, 



423- 



Stealing deer, 18. 



Stickleback, 29, 47. 



Stilt plover, 219. 



Stockdove {see Wood-pigeon). 



Stonechat, 86, 117. 



Stone, free, 4, 5, 9. 



Stone curlew, 40, 77, 237, 415; 

 food of, 77 ; note o^ 237, 415 ; 

 migration of, 77 ; makes no nest, 

 77; eggs of, 40 ; flight of, 78. 



Stonehenge, daws breeding at, 53. 



Stone, sand, 10; rag, 9; yellow, 

 I o; coffin lids in Selborne Church, 

 266. 



Stones swallowed by birds, 80. 



Stoparola (fly-catcher), 41, 393, 

 402,407. 



Iropyrj of animals and birds, 130, 

 148, 161. 



Storm-cock, 85. 



Strangers elected to Selborne Priory, 

 322. 



Stratford, Bishop of Winchester, 

 301. 



Stubble burning, 20. 



Stype a/ias Stepe, Prior, 317, 319. 



Summer birds of passage, 100; 

 short-winged, 76, 1 17, 143,407 ; 

 list of, 42, 100; soft-billed, 121. 



Sun, red, 252. 



Sunbury-on-Thames, 36. 



Sun dew, round leaved, 200, 399, 



Sussex downs, 1 1 7, 141. 



Swallows, 145, 150, 222; young, 

 appearance of, 26 ; late hatchings 

 of, 26; hybernation of, 26, 33, 

 121, 128, 145, 222, 233, 419; 

 drink flying, 148 ; flocks of, 32, 

 419; on the Thames, 32, 36; 

 late, 33, 67, 148 ; migration of, 

 33, 57, 82, 162, 419 ; congrega- 

 tion of, 57, 420 ; late, at Oxford, 

 58; house, 57, 145, 162; in- 



