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INDEX. 
Losel'swood, 5, 320 
Love in birds, 118, 134 
Loxia coccothraustes [see Grosbeak); 
(curvirostra) {see Crossbill) 
Lycoperdon tuber (truffle), 227 
M. 
Magdalen College, Oxford, 4 ; curiovt.'^ 
custom at, 366 ; land belonging to, 
at Selborne, 496, 554 ; patron of 
living of Selborne, 481 ; founded, 
537 ; court list of, held at Selborne, 
553 
Maggots in cattle, 71 ; of house flies, 
414 
Magpie and missel thrush, fight be- 
tween, 185 
Mahommedans dusting themselves, 
112 
Maiden hair fern, 196 
Malm, black and white, 2 
Man-traps, 332 
Manor house at Selborne, 493 
Marcley Hill said to have moved, 237 
Market at Selborne, 495, 554 
Marsh cinquefoil, 226 
Martins, young, appearance of, 28; late, 
28, 66 ; house, 29, 36, 103, 110, 
146, 163 ; sand, 30, 114, 163 ; fre- 
quenting water, 30 ; late breeding 
of, 36, 40, 134, 144, 150, 170, 264 ; 
migration of, 130 ; food of, 165 ; 
parasites of, 165, 424 ; hybernating 
of, 135, 212, 257, 265 ; nest of, 147, 
149 ; down on legs of, 151 ; colour of, 
161 ; sand and house feed young on 
the wing, 110, 404 ; nest of, 30, 177 ; 
washing as they fly, 166 ; do not sing, 
165 ; flight of, 166 ; abundance of, 
166 ; appearance of, 212 
Martlet [see House martin) 
Masses for the dead in Selborne church, 
505 
May-day custom at Oxford, 366 
May-fly, 180 
Memory, comparing animals by, 115 
*' Meating off" birds, 381 
Merops apiaster (beebird) 120 
Merula torqicata [see ring ouzel) 
Meteors, 289 
Mezereon, 227 
Migration of swallows, 29, 40, 74 ; of 
birds, 33, 40, 44, 75, 78, 80, 101, 103, 
105, 117, 120 ; of chaflinches, 41 ; 
of birds, afl'ected by the season, 105 
Migration, a large, 74 ; home," 117 ; 
at Gibraltar, 120 
Mildew on hops, 320 
Miller's thumb, 35 
Missel thrush [see Thrush, missel) ; 
bird, 144 
Mist, sulphurous, 291 
Moisture, effect of, on trees, 123 
Moles, eaten by weasels, 167 ; cricket, 
253, 456 ; 279, 432 ; eating worms, 
431 ; paw of, 432 
Monasteries, eflect of, 490; degeneration 
of, 521 
Monkey, mummied, found in a tree, 
411 
Monogamous birds, 103 
Monographs, merits of, 109, 111 
Monolith at Crickhowell, 36? 
Monument, to Gilbert White, 474 ; to 
Rev. W. Etty, 474 
Moose deer, the, 99, 115, 387 ; food of, 
100, 387 ; swinmiing in breeding 
time, 107, 388 ; appearance of, 388 
Mosquitoes, 142 
Moss on tombstones, to destroy, 317 
Motacilla trocMlus, 31 ; three kinds of, 
32, 61 ; atricapilla {see blackcap) ; 
salicaria {see Willow wren) 
Mother marking, 213 
Mountains, 152 
Mouse, 44 ; harvest, 32 ; new kind, 32, 
37, 49 ; burrowing, 44 ; large, 44 ; 
house, 44 ; red, dogs eating, 169 ; 
common, cats eating, 170 ; shrew, 
199, 380 ; caught by an oyster, 348 ; 
field {see Field mouse) 
Movements of animals and birds, 
various, 31, 228 
Mud iguana, 56 
Mus aiinyhihius, 32; minimus (new kind 
of mouse), 32, 37, 49 ; domesticus 
medi^is (Ray), 37 
Musca putris {see Bacon-fly) ; chamce- 
leon, 125 
Music, influence of, 268 
Mustella weasel, 47 
Mustelinum, 47 
Mytilus, the, 7 ; fossil, at Selborne, 7 
Naturalist's summer evening walk, 78 
Nautilus, fossil, 8 
Nest of sand-martins, 30 ; mouse, 38 ; 
rooks, 47 ; swallow on owl's body, 
160 
Newt, or Avater-eft, 55, 358 
Newton Valence church, tablet in, 
324 
Nidification of birds, 119, 137, 163, 186, 
266 ; house-martins, 147, 266; sand- 
