304. 



INDEX 



Nightingales, destruction of, on 

 account o£ their singing, 287 



" Old man's beard," 234 



On the Downs, by Mrs. Marriott 

 "Watson, quoted, 36 



" Ortolans," wheatears appearing 

 as, 130, 140 



Owl, Cape Horned, at Alfrieton, 

 27!2 ; long-eared, recently in the 

 South Downs, 86 ; in furze 

 patches, 87 ; white, at Ditch- 

 ling church, 187 ; caged, at 

 Chichester, 272-276 



Oxen, black, their use in Sussex, 

 33 ; introduced from Wales, 34 ; 

 in poetry, 36 ; red, the old 

 Sussex breed of, 34 



Pampas, thistle-down on the, 3 



Parasites on swifts, 200 



Parham, heronry at, 88 



Partridges, red-legged, on the 

 downs, 73, 177 



" Pence of ransom," Hurdis's, 133 



Peewit, its abundance in the 

 valleys, 243, 245 ; its hatred of 

 the rook, 243 ; its wing-exer- 

 cises, 244 



Peregrine falcons on Beachy 

 Head, 81 



Pheasants, purchase of, for shoot- 

 ing, 221 



Piers Plowman, quoted, 171 ; 

 philosophy of, 172 



Pigeon, domestic, chased by mag- 

 pie, 222 



Plover, grey, in company with 

 ringed dotterels, 17 



Pre-natal suggestion, 87 



Protection of wheatears, 139 



Public-house, results of the 

 " tied" system on, 106 



Publicans, concessions to, at 

 Cliichester, 260 



Rabbits, on the downs, 73; in 



summer, 169 

 Rabbit-holes, wheatears nesting 



in, 92 

 Ravens, disappearance of, from 



Sussex, 81 ; ewes attacked by, 



83 

 Razor-bill, disappearance of, from 



Sussex, 81 

 Red-admiral, autumnal second 



brood of, 208 

 Redshanks in Sussex, 88 

 Redstart, its song, 157 

 Reed-pheasant extinct in Sussex, 



81 

 Reptiles of the downs, 94 

 Ring-snake rare on the high 



downs, 101 

 Ringmer, Gilbert White's visits 



to, 284 ; destruction of nightin- 

 gales at, 287 

 Rivers of the downs, 21, 219 

 Romans, probable racial traces 



of the, 119 

 Roman earthworks on the downs, 



40 

 Rook pulling up grass, 242; 



hated by peewit, 243 

 Rotlier, the, described by Dray- 

 ton, 219; a walk by, 280 

 Rottingdean, wheatear catching 



at, 138 



Sainfoin, shepherd boy standing 

 in, 46 



Salvation Army, its function, 115, 

 116 



Saxon characteristics of Sussex 

 peasants, 105 



Scabious, an autumn flower of 

 the downs, 207 



" Screechers," 203 



Seaford Head, colony of herring- 

 gulls at, 89 ; kestrels and jack- 

 daws at, 89 



