INDEX. 



Affection of Animals, 223, 411. 



Affection of birds, 153. 



Anne, queen, visits Wolmer Forest, 



28. 

 Antelope, S6, fi7. 

 Ants, 345. 

 Aphides, 272, 344. 

 Arum, or cuclioo-pint, 60. 

 Ash-tree, 351 ; a shrew one, 214. 

 Auk, 163, 244. 

 Aurora Borealis, 358. 

 Ayles Holt, or Alice Holt, 12; forest 



of, 34. 



B.- 



Bank Swallow, 175, 406. 

 Barometers at Selborne, Newton 



Valence, and South Lambeth, com- 

 pared, 287, 288. 

 Barragons, a genteel corded stuff, 25. 

 Barrow-hogs, 221. 

 Bats, 43, 45, 86, 104, 144, 156, 327, 



401. 

 Beans sown by birds, 354. 

 Beech-tree, 13, 351,396. 

 Bee-catching toads, 70, 410. 

 Bees, wild, 340; management of, 290. 

 Bin's or Bean's Pond, for what 



remarkable, 32. 

 Birds, observations on, 305 — 330; 



influenced in their choice of food 



by colour, 60, 305. 

 Black act, 30. 

 Blackbirds, mountain, 78. 

 Black-cap, 39, 49, 106, 112, 132, 189, 



399. 



Black game, 27. 

 Black Jack, 140. 

 Blackthorn, winter, 352. 

 Blatta Orientalis (cocki'oach), 337. 

 Blind-worm (anguis fragilis), 71. 

 Bog oak, 26, 397. 

 Bohemian chatterer, 48. 

 Bombylius medius, 343. 

 Botany of Selborne, 238—242. 

 Brutes, their sociality, 205. 

 Bug, harvest, 139. 

 Bullfinch, 60, 131. 

 Bunting, common, 51,401. 

 Bustards, 126, 130, 163. 

 Butcher-bird, 77, 98, 161. 

 Buzzard, S06, 307. 



C. 



Canary-birds, 48, 132. 



Cancers supposed to be cured by 



toads, 75, 81. 

 Cane, or common weasel, 59. 

 Capercailzie, or wood-grouse, 27, 398. 

 Carp, 188. 



Castration, its effects, 221. 

 Cats, 116, 223, 333. 

 Celibacy of birds, 116. 

 Chaffers, 139, 188, 335. 

 Chaffinches, SI, 130, 132. 

 Chestnut timber, 351. 

 Chickens, 247. 

 Chiff-chaf, 321. 

 Chinese dogs, 282. 

 Chirper, 62. 

 Choughs, Cornish, 161. 

 Olmex Linearis, 338. 

 Coccus vitis vinifens, 27 h 



