588 
INDEX. 
434; flight of, 168 ; food of, 174 ; egg 
and nest of the, 434 ; house, 103 
169 ; cleaning themselves, 112 ; tak- 
ing sand-martin's nest, 165 ; nidiii- 
cation of, 169 ; food of, 393 ; increase 
of, 393 
Sparrows in the City, 392 
Speckled diver, 82 
Spiders, making gossamer webs, 190, 
435 ; flying, 191 ; silk of, 435 
Spindle trees, 170 
Spiraciila of fallow deer, 45, 331 
Sporting, inherent in mankind, 18, 
512 ; dogs, training of, 272 
Spring-guns, 332 
Squirrel, suckled by a cat, 209 ; eating 
nuts, 267 
Stag, hunt a, in Wolmer Forest, 16 ; 
nostrils of, 45 ; beetle, larvse of, 386 
Starlings, roosting, 415 ; mode of 
catching, 417 ; food of, 417 
Stealing deer, 18 
Stickleback, 35, 58, 362 ; nest of, 363 ; 
Stilt plover, 247 
Stoat, 353 
Stockdove {sec Wood-pigeon) 
Stonechat, 113, 144, 425 
Stone, free, 2, 4, 8 
Stone curlew, 49, 50, 69, 116, 273, 275 ; 
food of, 2, 9 ; note of, 65, 273 ; migra- 
tion of, 65, 110 ; makes no nest, 72 ; 
egg of, 86 ; flight of, 117 
Stonehenge, daws breeding at, 66 ; how 
it was built, 367 
Stone, sand, 8, 10 ; rag, 9 ; yellow, 
10 ; large, found at Selborne, 318 ; 
cofiin lids in Selborne Church, 
470 
Stones, swallowed by birds, 86, 94 
^ropyr] of animals and birds, 137, 160, 
183 
Storm-cock, 144 
Strangers elected to Selborne Priory, 
526, 528 
Stratford, Bishop of Winchester, 507 
Stubble burning, 20 
Sulphuring machine for hops, 320 
Summer birds of passage 87 ; short- 
winged, 33, 113, 115, 153 ; list of, 
53, 80 ; soft-billed, 120 
Sun, red, 289 
Sunbury-on-Thames, 44 
Sun dew, round leaved, 226 
Sundial in White's garden, 315 
Superstition of country people, 198, 
358 
Sussex downs, 113, 151 ; iron railings 
from, round St. Paul's Cathedral, 327 
Swallows, 101, 161, 173, 251 ; young, 
appearance of 28 ; hatchings of, 28 ; 
hybernation of, 28, 40, 120, 133,154, 
156, 160, 251, 269 ; drink flying, 37; 
flocks of, 40, 44 ; on the Thames, 40, 
44 ; late, 40, 92, 159 ; migration of, 
40,74,130,140,159, 163, 184 ; congre- 
gation of, 74,159 ; late, at Oxford, 74; 
house, 74, 155,184, 322 ; increase of, 
94 ; and frosts, 103, 105 ; feeding 
young on the wing, 110, 404; and 
swifts, supposed rivalry between,lll; 
late, 133 ; food of, 142, 158 ; lice of, 
142; washing while flying, 144, 145, 
158 ; early, 155 ; nidification of, 156 ; 
eggs of, 157 ; song of, 158 ; tail of, 
160, 167 ; and hawks, 181 ; appear- 
ance of, 184 ; going under water in 
winter, 210 ; appearing in hot wea- 
ther, 211 ; chimney {see Swallow, 
house) fond of water, 269 
Swans, 167 ; migration of, 121 ; breed- 
ing place at Norwich, 430 ; how to 
cook, 431 
Sweden, birds of, 173 
Swift, hybernation of, 28 ; early migra- 
tion of, 92, 181 ; great white-bellied, 
]16, 183 ; note of, 128, 182 ; staying 
late, 131 ; appearance of, 144, 370 ; 
or black martin, 177 ; nidification of, 
177, 178 ; propagation of, 178 ; 
food of, 179, 180, 183 ; and hawks 
180; young of, 180, 183 ; colour 
of, 181 ; fleas of, 182, 258 ; feet 
of, 182 ; in London, 183 ; simi- 
lar to cuckoo in formation, 204 ; 
l^airing every year in same immber, 
222 ; late breeding, 258 ; late depar- 
ture of, 258 
Swifts, 36, 92 
Sylvia loquax, lesser willow wren, 6 1 ; 
trochilus larger willow wren, 61 ; 
sibilatrix smallest willow wren, 61 ; 
curruca lesser white throat, 269 
T. 
Tadpoles, 55 
Tails, of woodpecker, 229, 398 ; ra.^, 
344 ; horse, long, 433 
Tameness, natural, of birds, 89, 135 
Taming of animals, &c., 68, 367 
Tanners' Wood, 546 
Tanyard at Selborne Priory, 546 ^ 
Teals, 23, 36, 140, 145 
Teeth of rabbits, 333 
Tench, 22 
Tenderness, natural, of birds, 89, 135 
Tender shrubs, how planted, 298 
" Tenpenny nails in the walls," 10, 317 
