INDEX. 
Ephemera (luayflies), 180 
Eunuchs, 206 
Euonymus Europceus (spindle-tree) 170, 
226 
Eve-churr {see Mole-cricket) 
Evejar [see Fern-owl) 
Eyes and ears, large, uses of, 142 
F. 
Fair at Selborne, 495, 554 
Falcons, 32, 34, 37, 270 
Falco peregrinus (haggard falcon), 270 
Fallow-deer, in Holt Forest, 26 ; never 
seen in Wolnier Forest, 26 ; head of, 
spiracula in, 45 ; imported from Kor- 
way by James I., 329 
Fattening of animals dujiug frost, 101 
Faustina, Empress, 462 
Fellwort, 226 
Fens of Lincolnshire, The, 70 
Fern-chafers, 71, 130, 170 
Fern-owl {see Goatsucker) 
Field-cricket (see Cricket, field) 
Fieldfares, 29, 85, QO, 98, 366 ; feeding 
in winter, 33, 386 ; not breeding in 
England, 90 ; roost on the ground, 
98 ; breeding in England, 118 
Field-mouse, 32, 37, 49 ; and young, 
139 ; eating nuts, 267 
Fig-trees in India destroying buildings, 
319 
Fish, shell, petrified, 7; at Selborne, 
22, 35 ; dead, why thev float, 262 ; 
gold, 262 ; silver, 262 ; food of, 263 ; 
bowls of, with birds inside, 263 ; 
scales of, 418 ; ponds, 554 
Flamingo, 248, 457 ; feeding its young, 
458 
Flies, plague of, 289 ; annoying ele- 
phants, 414 ; and cholera, 414 
Flight of birds, 162, 229, 230 ; insects, 
244 
Floods in 1764, 162 ; 1784, 291 
Flora of Selborne, 225 
Fly, turnip, 125 ; depositing eggs in 
hairs of horses, 125 ; horse hot {see 
horse-Hy) ; forest, 142 ; side, 142 ; 
house maggots of, 414 
Flycatcher, 31, 36, 52, 138 ; arrival of, 
33 ; instinct of, 1 39 ; nidification 
of, 172 ; note of, 172 ; spotted, 422 ; 
pellets cast np by, 422 
Fogs, 200, 202 ; smoky, 289 
Food of titlark, 33 ; of soft-billed 
birds, 30 ; birds guided by colour in 
choice of, 33 ; of birds, 118 ; of 
man, various, 224 ; of woodpecker, 
401 
Foot of woodpecker, 399 
Forest-flies, 142 
Forests, services rendered by, 19 ; ef- 
fects of on the weather, 201 ; royal 
origin of, 465 
Fossils at Selborne, 7 ; wood, 14, 
273 ; oak, 273 
Foxes in Wolmer Forest, 21 
Freestone, analogous to chalk, 2 ; grows 
shaky wood, 4 ; its uses, 8 
French naturalists, 107 
Fringilla (hard-billed), 175 ; ccelcbs {see 
Chaffinch) 
Frogs, 54 ; breeding of, 55 ; swarm of, 
cause of, 55, 357 ; migrating of, 55, 
357 ; cultivation of, 358 ; croaking 
of,' 358 
Fj'osts, lying longer on bog oaks, 14 ; 
severe, 45, 277, 281, 284; birds 
fattening during, 101 ; effects of on 
aninials, 101 ; effect of on birds, 102 
Fruit crop, 186 
G. 
Gallinse, walk of, 229 
Gallows Hill, 553 
Garden, White's, 316 
Gardening, 215 ; among the SaxoLs, 
215 
Garlands in churches in honour of 
Virgins, 469 
Garrulus Bohemicus (German silk-tail), 
38 
Gassendus, quotation from, on music, 
268 
Gasterosterus pungitius {see Stickle- 
back) ; aculcatus {see Stickleback) 
Gems placed in turkey's crops, 374 
Gentian, 226 
Gentiana amarUla (gentian or fell- 
work), 226 
Geology of Selborne, 2, 8 
German-boars, 26 ; silk-tail, 38 
Gibraltar, migration of birds to. 11 1, 
115 ; entries relating to, 323 
Gill covers of mud Iguana, 56 
Gipsies, language of, 21, 38 ; 193, 438 
Gizzard, of landrail, 84 ; of birds, 95, 
374 
Glow-worm, 79 
Gnats on the snow, 33 
Goats, breathing through their ears, 46 
427 ; do not take sheep scab, 427 
Goatsucker, 70, 368 ; note of, 70, 71, 
74, 102, 130 ; food of, 70, 176, 368 ; 
does not injure cattle, 71 ; egg of, 
72, 368 ; makes no nest, 73 ; feeding 
by means of its foot, 130 ; anatomy 
of, 204 ; tame, 369 
