INDEX. 
A. 
Aberda vines, 117 
Acclimatizing plants and animals, 224 
^^nanthus {see Wheatear) 
^nas [see woodpigeon) 
Affection among animals, 137, 160, 183 
Africa, migration of birds to, 115, 428 
Air, elastic at midnight, 218 
Alauda ijratensis, rearingyoung cnckoo, 
112, 123 
Alice Holt Forest, 1, 25, 496 ; fallow 
deer in, 19, 26; leased by the crown, 
25 ; soil of, 25 ; timber in, 26 
Alton, hollow lane leading to, 11, 319 ; 
manufactures of, 13, 14 
American animals, origin of, 77 ; juni- 
pers, 280 ; water-weed, 338 
Amphibious animals, 104 
Anathoth, an, 220, 276 
Ancient burying ground, 555 ; vases 
found at Chapel Field, 561 
Andalusia, birds of, 92, 123 ; stone 
curlew in, 116 
Anguilla [see Eel) 
A nguis fragilis {see Blind worm) 
Animals eating their young, 140 
Anne, Queen, in Wolmer Forest, 16 
Antelope, double nostril of, 45 
Antipathy of birds and animals to their 
young, 140, 223 
Antiquities, at Selborne, 339, 561 ; 
found near Barnstaple, 339 
^Avri<jopy7\ of birds, 223 
Aphides, shower of, 261,288 ; (smother 
flies) 261 
April, remarkably inclement, 105 
Aquaria for fishes, 263 
Aquatic plants, 226 
Armadillo, scales of, 419 
Arrows, poisonous, of Indian, 449 
Ainim, the cuckoo pint, 49 ; thrush 
feeding on the roots of, 49 
Aiun, River, the, 3, 322 
Ash tree, ruptured, 199 
Ashford, last Prior of Selborne, 535 
Aslimolean Museum, Oxford, 332 
Ash-shrew, 199 
Aspen, shiver leaf, old, 318 
Asses ploughing, 185 
August, the mute month, 168, 377 
Augustine Canons, 487 
Auk, little, 145 
Aweto, the, 451 
B. 
Bacon -fly, 124 
Bait for pike, 337 
Bank-swallow {sec Sand martin) 
Bank martin {see Sand martin) 
Baptist, St. John the, little hnger of 
523 
Barnstaple, antiquities found near, 339 
Barometers, 276 
Barragons, manufacture of, 1 3 
Barrington, Hon. Daines, who he was, 
323 
Batfowlers catching birds, 98, 386 
Bats, 36, 160; appearance of, in warm 
weather, 30, 212 ; hybernation of, 
30, 31 ; tame, 36 ; food of, 36, 347 ; 
drink flying 37 ; little, 92 ; breeding 
of, 129 ; anatomy of, 130 ; tame, 
from Bruges Cathedral, 347 ; in 
churches, 348 
Bat, great, new sj^ecies of, 73 ; food of, 
92 
Bean's pond, 21 
Bears in Hampshire, 461 
Beasts and birds, taming of, 68, 367 
Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester, 517 ; 
register of, 519 
Bees, drink flying, 145 ; Virgil's, 145. 
219 ; and idiot boy, 197, 438 ; swarm- 
ing in hot weather, 211 ; injured ])y 
echoes, 219 ; insensible to souini, 
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