INDEX. 
587 
Rooks, 155, 293, iVoi ; killed by fulcoii, 
33 ; nesting of, 47 ; white, 47, 
354 ; power of smell in, 132 ; fright- 
ened by scarecrows, 391 
Eoyal forests, origin of, 465 
Royston crow, 123 
Rupert, Prince, 25 
Ruptured children placed in pollard- 
ashes, 199 
Rush candles, 194 ; to make, 195 
Rutland, fall of rain in, 119, 281 
Saffron, 227 
Salad or Sallet, 21G, 455 
Salad oil as a cure for viper's sting, 57 
Salania',.dra aqnatica, (water-newt, or 
eft). 55 
Salicaria, 49, 76, 85, 91 ; fen (ret-d- 
wren), 374 
Salmo-fario (trout), 35 
Salmon breeding, 322 
Salt meat causing leprosy, 214 
Sambucus ehulus (dwarf elder) 
Sandmartins [see ]\Iartins, Sand) 
stone, 10 ; pipers, 62 ; pits in Wol- 
mer forest, 163 
Saxon words, meaning of, 464 
Scallops, 8 
Scarabceus solstitialis {see Fernchafers) ; 
melolontha, 72 ; falio, 76 
Scopoli, 106, 109, 111, 115 
Scotland, maps of, 188 
Sea-birds, 35 
Seal of Gurdon, 499 
Sedge-bii'd {see Willow-wren) 
Sedge-warbler, 85, 106 ; note of, 86, 
94 ; singing at night, 145 
Selborne Parish, 1 ; village, 2 ; soil of, 
. 2, 4 ; streams in, 2 ; fossils at, 7 ; 
extent of, 12 ; salubrity of, 12 ; 
fall of rain in, 12, 73, 275 ; occupa- 
tion of, 13 ; population, 13 ; situa- 
tion of, 312 ; in Saxon times, 464 ; 
value of the living, 481 ; vicar of, 
before Domesday Book, 481 ; Priory, 
property of, 496, 519 ; decay of, 
537, 542, 544, 551 ; rivulet, 547 ; 
account of, 548 ; ruins of, 552 ; im- 
portance of, 555 
Serpents {see Snakes) 
Sex of birds, 106 
Sexes, distinguishing features of the, 
107 ; sej)aration of, during winter, 
117 
Shearing sheep, 153 
Sheep, close grazers, 20 ; feetang be- 
fore rain, 129 ; of Sussex, 152 ; con- 
gregating, 191 ; in Austi'alia, 426 ; 
foretelling the weather, 427 
Shingles on roof, advantages of, 476 
Short-winged birds of passage, 33, 40, 
53 
Shrew, water, 91, 380 ; ash, 199 ; 
mouse, 199, 330 
Shrikes, 63, 143, 363 ; four kinds 
of, 364 
Silkwood, 196 ; of spiders, 435 ; 
tail, German, 38 ; worm, intes- 
tines of, used for fishing-tackle, 73, 
369 
Silver fish, 262 
Sitta Eurnpmi {sec Nuthatch) 
Skunk, 86 
Skylark (/Vcc lark) 
Slugs injurious to wheat, 211 
Smell, animals recognised by, 153 
Smoky atmosphere, cause of, 275 
Smother flies, 261, 288 
Snails, 250, 449 ; shells eaten by birds, 
84, 450, 451 ; nutritious food, 450 ; 
French, 451 
Snakes, {see also Vipers) ; food of, 3 ; 
feeding once a year, 57 ; English, 57 ; 
stink, 86 ; tame, 86, 374 ; eating 
snakes, 357 ; eggs of, 359 ; nest of, 
360 ; vertebrae of, 361 ; tame, in 
London, 374 
Snipes, 32, 53; in Wolmer Forest, 15 ; 
piping and humming of, 32, 53, 
145 ; make no nest, 72 ; stomach 
of. 94 
Snowflake, 48, 91, 352; storms, 277, 
281 ; bunting, 352 
Sociality of animals, 191 ; of different 
natures, 208 
Soft-billed birds, migration of, 44, 80 ; 
non-migratory, list of, 81 
Soil, curions, 4 ; good for timber, 4, 5, 
25 ; inferior ^^ x timber, 4, 25 ; of 
Wolmer and Holt Forests, 25 ; 
chalky and sandy, subject to heat, 
288 ; at Selborne, productive, 318 
Solstice, summer and winter, 236 
Song-birds, 32, 80, 93, lOl ; migration 
of, 80, 81, 117 ; non-migratory, 81, 
174 ; night, 82 ; list of, 87 ; loss 
of voice in, 102 ; food of, 174 
Song of thrush, 168, 377 ; of blackbird, 
168; of willow wren, 168; wood 
lark, 168 
Sounds, association of, 242 
Sow, fecundity of the, 207 ; age of, 
207 
Spain, birds migrating to, 44 
Si)aniels, 272 
S])arrow hawk, 167, 252 ; hedge, 174, 
