58G 
INDEX. 
Planting evergreens, 280 
PJants, at Selborne, 226 ; suffer from 
heat and cold, 278, 285 
riestor, the, 5, 316, 494 ; great oak in, 
316, 326 
Plover, 247 
Plowman, Piers, 521 
Plumpton Plain, 152 
Poaching at night, 18, 26 
Poison-fangs of viper, 444 
Poison, Wourali, 448 
Poisoned arrows of Indians. 440 
Poll sheep, 152 
Pollard-ash, children cured of rupture 
by, 199 ; in the Plestor, 199 
Ponds, on chalkhills, 201 ; at Wohner, 
201 ; at Selborne, dried up, 320 
Pope Martin conliscates property of 
Selborne Priorv, 520 
Portugal laurels, "280 
Pottery, Roman, found at Selborne, 
561, 562 
Poultry, 233 ; their notes and Inn- 
guage, 233 ; destroying a hawk, 234 
Prayers for the dead, 494, 505, 5<j6, 
543 
Preceplorcs, meaning of, 504 
Prior, election of a, 507, 524, 526, 529, 
532 
Priors of Selborne, list of, 535 
Priories, alien, 489 
Priory of Selliorne, at Pilton, 339, 485 ; 
in debt, 516 ; property of, 519 ; se- 
questrated, 520, 525 ; reduced to a 
chantry, 544 
Prophecy of Piers Plowman, 522 
Puckeridge [sec Fern-owl) 
Puffins, 66 ; breed on flat ground, 66 
P'ulex irrit'ins (bed-ffeai, 165 
Punishmeut of cano.ns for misbehaviour, 
515 
Puritanism at Selborne, 482 
Purlieus, 22 
Q. 
Quails, 12, 42 
Queen's bank, 16 
Quicksilver mines, men working in, 
106 
P. 
Rabbits, in Wolmer Forest, 19 ; Avith 
deformed teeth, 333 ; feiTeted by 
crabs, 335 ; and cat, hybrid between, 
336 
Railings, round St. Paul's Cathedral, 
327 ; Hanover Square, 328 
Rainfall, at Selborne, 13, 73, 275 ; in 
llulland, 119, 281 ; effect of trees on, 
201, 440 ; compared with Plymouth, 
275 
Eana arhorea (tree-frog), 55 
Rats, common, 34, 342 ; two kinds, 32 ; 
water, 32, 342 ; three varieties of, 
342 ; black, 343 ; white, 343 ; brown, 
345 ; tail of, 344 ; tormenting an ele- 
phant, 344 ; dead, how to find out in 
houses, 414 
Rattlesnake, 361, 447 ; canudt rattle in 
wet weather, 448 
Ravens, building in the Plestor Oak, 
6 ; close sitting of, 7 ; driving vul- 
tures from their nests, 138, 327 
Redbreast, 93, 101, 433 ; tame, singing 
by candlelight, 94 ; song of, 170, 
433 ; autumn songster, 170 ; food of, 
170, 175 ; egg and nest of, 433 
Red deer, 16, 328 ; in Wolmer Forest, 
1() ; never seen in Holt Forest, 19, 
26 ; horns of, 329 ; injuring ciops, 
328 
Redstart, 36, 52, 154, 433 ; arrival of, 
33 ; motion of tail of, 168 ; song of, 
172 ; nest of, 434 
Redwing, 29, 386 ; feeding in winter, 
33 ; breeding in England, 118 ; mi- 
gration of, 128 ; killed by frost, 
278 
Reed-sparrow, 85, 91, 101, 106, 117; 
food of, 106 ; song of, 106 
Reed- wren, 86, 374 
llegulus cristatus, 357 ; eggs of, 357 ; 
nest of, 357 
Regulus non cristatus {see Golden- 
crested wren) 
Relics of Selborne priory, 523 
Reptiles, breeding of, 53 ; stinking se 
defendendo, 86 
Eing-dove, 95, 123, 253 ; food of, 95 ; 
104 ; nidification of, 186 
Ring-ouzel, 38, 44, 63, 68, 76, 90, 108, 
123, 154, 403 ; migration of, 62, 66, 
68, 76, 85, 90, 109, 113, 131, 135 ; 
southwards, 85 ; food of, 64, 76 ; 
breeding places in England, 144, 
403 
Rivers near Selborne, 35 
Roads, at Selborne, 319 ; new, made 
by Gilbert White, 484 
Roche, Peter de la, or de Rupibus, 
founds Selborne priory, 485 ; Bishop 
of Winchester, 485 
Rocks removed by rain, 291 
Roman remains found at Alton, 572 ; 
Selborne, 24, 339, 461, 559, 562 ; 
invasion of England, 569 
Romulus and Remus, 209, 395 
Roofs of houses, various, 545 
