578 
INDEX. 
220 ; injured by heat and cold, 278 ; 
eating honey dew, 288 ; sting of, im- 
munity from, 438 
Bee bird, 120 
Beech, the, 1 
Beetles, 183 
Belfry of Selborne Church, 475 
Bell, Professor, 312 
Bells in Selborne Church, 475 
Berne, Canon, Prior of Selborne, 531 ; 
provision for, 534 
Bezoar stones, 415 
Bilberry, creeping or Cranberry, 226 
Bin's pond, 21 ; parsonage, 481 
Binstead parish, 26 
Birdcatcher, experience of a, 321 
l)irdcatching, modes of, 350, 352 — 
355, 364, 386, 410, 417 
Birds, without English names, 32, 247 ; 
influenced by colour in choice of 
food, 33 ; of passage, 33 ; settling 
on ships at sea, 44 ; colour of, in- 
fluenced by food, 48, 145, 354 ; turn- 
ing black, 48 ; of summer passage, 
53, 80, 87, 113, 115, 120, 153 ; in- 
stinct of, 78, 96, 138, 161, 266 ; soft 
billed (non-migratory), 81 ; of winter 
passage, 81, 87 ; wintering in Eng- 
liind, 81 ; singing after midsummer, 
82, 87, 101 ; motions of, 83, 106, 
228, 397 ; singing, are all Passeres, 
88 ; in full song till midsummer, 88; 
that sing in the si)ring, 88 ; with 
slight notes, 88 ; which sing flying, 
89 ; with a song, 89 ; some tame, 
others shy, 89 ; breeding early, 89 ; in 
Ascension Island, 89 ; of Andalusia, 
92, 116, 123 ; singing during incuba- 
tion, 93; fatten in frosts, 101 ; jmir- 
ingof, 103, 397, 433; migration of,in- 
fluenced by the weather, 103, 1 05, 397 ; 
food of, 105, 108 ; colour of, changing 
at breeding time, 106 ; thick -billed, 
106 ; transport of, on board ship, 
108, 401 ; collections of, contain few 
soft-billed birds, 108 ; washing. 111 ; 
that dust do not wash, 111 ; which 
are pulveratrices, 111 ; migration of, 
to Africa, 115, 428; of prey, 120, 
168 ; migration of, over the sea, 121 ; 
swarms of different varieties, 182 ; 
singing in spring and autumn, 169 ; 
drinking, 170 ; growth of, 184 ; con- 
gregating, 191 ; dispersion of, 223 ; 
destroyed while migrating, 228 ; 
notes and language of, 230 ; migra- 
tion of, 320 ; of Sussex, collection 
of, 323 ; frightened at gloves, 367 ; 
arrival of, 370 ; seen at Kiniberley, 
Norfolk, 371 ; seen at Zoological 
Gardens, London, 373 ; moulting, 
377 ; English, exported to New 
Zealand, 401 ; soft-billed, caught in 
April, 408 ; English, in Africa, 
428 ; migratory, leaving the South 
Coast, 429 
Bird's-nest ophrys, 227 
Bittern, 368 
Black act, the, 19 
Blackbird, 49, 386 ; killed by frost, 
284 ; nest of, made with paper, 371 ; 
nest of, ornamented with lace, 378 ; 
note of, 379 ; pugnacity of, 380 
Blackcap, 32, 36, 93, 154, 172, 381; 
arrival of, 33, 381; food of, 172, 381; 
note of, 172 ; eggs of, 381 ; nest of, 
381 
Black death, the, 454 
Black dolphin, 125 
Black canons, 487 
Black game at Selborne, 16 
Blackmoor farm, 560 ; curious custom 
at, 21 
Black rat, old English, 343 
Blindworm, 57 
Blossoming of plants, 227 
Blue-bottle flies, 413 
Blue rag, 10 
Boa constrictor, 362, 375 
Boars, wild, in Wolmer Forest, 26 
Boars, fierce, tamed by losing their 
tusks, 206 
Bogs in Wolmer Forest, 14, 273 
Bohemian chatterer, 38 
Bohemian waxwing, 38 
Booby, the, 89 
Books in White's library, 313 
Botany, its utility, 224 
Botfly, horse, 71, 125, 413 
Bower bird, 379 
Boy bee-eater, 120 
Brain of horse, 437 
Brambling, greater, 91 
Breathing of deer, 45 ; goats, 46 
Brighton, fall of clifls at, 28 ; bustards 
at, 113, 406 
Brimstone Lodge, 21 
Bristowe, D., Vicar of Selborne, be- 
quests of, 484 
Brooks and springs at Selborne, 23 
Buck, head of, 64 
Buckland, Frank, birth of, 312 ; Rev. 
J., Rector of Warborough, 312 
Buffalo, Avild, in Wolmer Forest, 26 
Bug, harvest, 124 
Bullfinch turning black, 48, 145, 354 
Bullhead, 35 
Bulrush caterpillar of New Zealand, 
451 
Buntings, 42, 113 
