580 
INDEX. 
Crocodile, structure of, 418 
Crocus [sativus crocus), spring and 
autumnal, 227 
Crops of birds, 374 
Cross bills, 35, 112, 155, 345 
Cyprinus auratus (gold fish, ) 2^3 
Crow, 144 ; grey or hooded, 170, 432 
Cuckoo, 95, 382 ; choosing a nest, 94, 
382 ; eggs of, 96, 102 ; skimming 
flight of, 112 ; food of, 112, 123 ; 
in nest of tit-lark, 112, 123 ; reared 
by Alauda pratensis, 112, 123 ; 
sings in different keys, 127 ; when 
it sings, hawks do not prey on other 
birds, 185 ; anatomy, 203 ; why it 
does not hatch eggs, 203, 204 ; in 
London, 374 ; reared by sparrows, 
382 ; young of turning other birds 
out of nest, 383 ; notes of, 384 
Cuckoo, pint, the, 49 
Curlew, stone [see Stone curlew) 
D. 
Daker-hen {see Landrail) 
Danewort, 227 
Daphne laureola (springe laurel) ; 
Megereum (Megeron) 226 
Daw {see Jackdaw) 
Daws, breeding places of, 66, 365 
Deafness of Gilbert White, 187 
Death, Black, the, 454 ; the end of all, 
321 
Decay of Selborne Priory, 525 
Deeds dated on Sunday, 506 
Deer, fallow {see Fallow deer) ; forests, 
management of, 328 ; moose {see 
Moose Deer) ; red {see Eed Deer) ; 
hunting, 16 ; killing a dog, 19 
Deer, breathing spiracula of, 45, 331 ; 
stealers, 18, 26 
Desecration of Communion Tables, 
514, 515 
Destruction of martins, 151 
Destructive frosts, 45, 277, 281, 284 
Dew collected by trees, 200 
Disease in cattle, caused by OEstrus 
bcvis, 71 
Diver or loon, 82 ; gait of, 83 
Doe, brought up with cows, 191 ; tame, 
chased by dogs, 192 
Dog, Chinese, 271 ; eating vegetables, 
271 
Dogs, killed by deer, 19 ; blinded by 
cobwebs, 189 ; Chinese, 271 ; of South 
America dumb, 271 ; ears of, 271 ; 
fed on vegetables, 271 ; refusing 
to eat birds that they hunt, 272 
Dove-ring {see King-dove) ; Stock {see 
Stock-dove^ 
Dover burnt by the French, 498 
Dove, stock, 252 ; house, 252 ; derived 
from blue-rock pigeon, 254 ; ring, 
reared by pigeons, 256 ; and pigeons, 
cross between, 256 ; house at Sel- 
borne Priory, 544, 547 
Downs, South, 152 ; sheep on the, 152 
Dragonfly, 112, 165 
Dress of canons in 1387, protest of 
Bishop Wykeham against, 514 
Drinking, mode of, in deer and horses, 
45 
Drosera rotundifolia (round-leaved 
sundew), 226 ; longifoUa, 226 
Ducks, wild, 23, 35 in Wolmer Fo- 
rest, 15 ; King of Denmark's, found 
in England, 121 ; rearing of, 406 
Dung of cattle, food for fish, 23 
E. 
Eagle, migration of, 120 
Early-breeding birds, 89 
Earthquakes in Sicily, 289 
Earthworms, 210, 449 ; anatomy of, 
450 ; uses of, 450 
Eastwick, 93 
Echoes, 217, 220, 275, 456 ; repeating 
ten syllables, 217; described by Ovid, 
217 ; rules of, 218 ; described by 
Virgil, 219 ; injurious to bees, 219 ; 
destroyed by intervening objects, 220; 
a place of, 220, 276 ; to make, 221 ; 
described by Lucretius, 221 ; at 
Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's, and 
Gloucester cathedral, 456 
Edward II. in Wolmer Forest, 465 
Edward III. in Wolmer Forest, 466 
Eels, 22, 35 ; breeding of, 54, 167 ; two 
species of, 167 ; how to catch, 346 ; 
large, 346 
Eft, 55 : water, larva of land-eft, 55 
Eggs, of carp, number of, 338 ; in larvge 
of insects, 60 
Elder, dwarf, 227 
Electricity, 291 
Elephant, tusk o*", growth of, 334 ; in- 
jured by bullet, 335 ; tormented by 
rats, 345 ; tormented by flies, 414 ; 
note of, 424 
Elk, European, 100, 387 
Elms, broad-leaved or wych hazel, 
large, 5 ; common, 325 
Emheriza miliaria (bunting), 352 
Bmberiza nivalis (snowflake), 352 
Entomology, 73, 126 
