INDEX. 
martins, 164 ; chaffincli, 266 ; nut- 
hatch, 266 ; wren, 266 
Night, birds coming forth at, 23 
Nightingale, 152, 407 ; migration of, 
122, 407 ; note of, 127, 167, 408 ; 
eggs and nests of, 407 ; breeding in 
London, 409 ; catching, 410 
Nocturnal birds, 273 
Norehill, 2, 237, 323 
Nostrils of antelope, 45 ; horses and 
deer, 331, 332 
Notes of, birds, 31, 42, 52, 82, 230 ; 
willow wren, 51 ; grasshopper lark, 
51 ; willow lark, 62 
Noxious insects, 125 
Nun, 176 
Nuthatch, 50, 53, 266, 356 ; eating 
nuts, 267 ; nest of, 356 ; foot of, 
356 ; anatomy of, 369 
Nuts opened differently by nuthatch, 
squirrel, and field-mice, 266 
Nymphcea (water-lily), 100 
0. 
Oak, large in the Plestor, 5, 494 ; in 
Losels wood, 5, 320 ; peculiar, 5, 6 ; 
bog, 14 ; how to tell the age of, 
326 
Oakhanger, 13, 21 
Oaks of Temple, 4 ; in Wolmer forest, 
26 ; in Windsor forest, 326 
Oedicnemus [see Stone curlew) 
Oil as a remedy for snake-bites, 57 
(Estrus bovis (bot-fly), causing injury to 
cattle, 71, 125 
Ophrys spiralis {see Ladies' traces) ; 
nidiLS avis {see Birds' nest ophrys) 
Opposite golden saxifrage, 226 
Oro pendolos, 120 
Osprey, 143 
Ostrich, the, 96 
Otis (bustard), 89 
Otter, 104, 395 ; killed near Selborne, 
104 ; anatomy of, 396 
Ouzel, ring {see Ring-ousel) ; water, {sec 
Water ouzel) 
Owl, barn {see Owl, white); brown, 
casting up fur and feathers, 36, 142 ; 
food of, 36 ; hooting of, 124 ; nest 
of swallow on an, 160 ; eagle, 91 ; 
fern {see Goatsucker) ; white, 140, 
422 ; young of, 36 ; food of, 36, 141 ; 
attacking dovehouse, 104 ; hawking, 
140 ; 140, 422 ; screech of, 141 ; 
voice of, 141 
Owls, pellets cast up by, 36, 142 ; hoot 
in different keys, 124, 127, 424; 
ears of, 142 ; eyes of, 142 ; flight of, 
142 ; food of, 423 ; to call, 424 
Oxen congregating together, 191 
Oxford, Guernsey lizards at Pembroke 
College, 73 ; swallows late at, 36, 
74 ; statues at, 346 ; figures of 
Muses at, 346 ; pigeons at, 347 ; 
curious custom at, 366 
Oyster, moase caught by, 348 ; catcher, 
caught by, 349 
P. 
Pairing of birds, 104 
Palm Sunday, yew trees carried on, 
480 
Palumbus torquatus {see Ring dove) 
Pangolin, scales of, 419 
Paradise Mede, Selborne, 545 
Parasitic insects, 142, 242 ; of mar- 
tins, 142, 151, 258, 424 
Paris quadrifolia, (herb Paris truelove 
or oneberry), 226 
Partridges, 12 ; pairing of, 104 ; great 
flocks of, 115 ; killed by frost, 284 
Farus cceruleus, (blue titmouse or 
wren), 176 ; fringillagus or major, 
(blackhead titmouse) 176 ; ater, 
(cole-mouse), 176 ; palustris (marsh 
titmouse), 176 
Passer arundinaceus minor {see Reed 
sparrow) ; torquatus {see Reedbunting 
Passeres, note of, 232 
Peacock, tails of, 126 ; killing vipers, 
415 
Peas, to prevent mice attacking, 348 
Peat, 14, 19 
Pectines in freestone, 8 
Pelican feeding its young, 457 
Perch, 22 
Peregrine falcon, 270 
Perewinkle, lesser, 226 
Pettichaps (chiff-chaff ), 269 
Pews in Selborne Church, 469 
Phalgena (gnats) 71, 92, 161 ; bats 
and swallows feeding on, 161 
Pheasants, 12 ; pursued by hen har- 
rier, 168 
Phryganea {see Caddis-fly) 
Pigeon, wood {see Woodpigeon) ; 
drinking, 170 ; blue rock, 254 ; eat- 
ing wheat in public roads, 347 
Pigs, eating their young, 140 ; length 
of life in, 207 ; eating yewberries 
without injury, 478 
Pike, large, 336 ; bait for, 337 
Pilton, antiquities found at, 339 
Pine plantations, near Glasgow, 188 
Pitancias, 513 
