INDEX. 
589 
Thames, frozen over, 283 ; curiosities 
found in the, 328 
Thaws, 283 ; causeil by underground 
vapours, 279 
Thermometers, use of, 286 
Thrush, the, 49, 377 ; food of, 49, 
185 ; breeding of, 76 ; nidification of, 
186 ; killed by frost, 278, 284 ; egg 
of, 376 
Thrush, Missel,38, 90,377; fierceness of, 
185 ; fight with a magpie, 185, 186 ; 
food of, 186 ; egg of, 377 ; nest of, 
made with paper, 378 
Thunderstorms, rarity of, at Selborne, 
290 
Tiles first used for roofs, 545 
Timber, good soil for, 4; in Holt F'orest, 
26 
Tipula (Long-legs), 210 
Titlark, or tree-pipit, 93, 113, 382 ; 
feeding in winter, 33 ; singing, 144 ; 
at night, 94 
Titmouse, song of, 170 ; great, 170 ; 
food of, 175; bill of, 175 ; blue, 176; 
great blackheaded, 176 ; long-tailed, 
176 ; marsh, 176 ; pulling straws 
from eaves, 176, 278 
Toads, breeding of, 54 ; venom of, 54 ; 
tame, 54, 68 ; man swallowing a, 59; 
as a cure for cancer, 59, 66, 358 
Tombs, 21 ; in Selborne church, 469, 
474 
Tongue of woodpecker, 399 
Toothwort, 226 
Tortoise, land, 113, 137, 249, 314 ; hy- 
bernation of, 113, 137, 155, 211, 249; 
food of, 114; age of, 114; feeding 
before rain, 137 ; instinct of, 250 ; 
tenacity of life in the, 251 ; structure 
of, 418, 419 
Travelling mountains, 237 
Tree beetles, 123 
Trees and forests, eff'ect of, on rain- 
fall, 200, 440; perfect alembics, 200 ; 
killed by frost, 280, 285, 286 ; in 
churchyards, 480 
Trenches, ancient, at Selborne, 567 
Tringa hyx)olenciis {see Sandpiper), 62 
Trout, 35 ; breeding at Selborne, 
322 
Truffles, 227 
Tumuli at Selborne, 565 
Tunbridge, 547 
Turdus torquatus {see Ring ouzel) ; ^n'/- 
aris [see Fieldfare) 
Turkey, gizzard of, power of, 374 
Turnip fiy, 125 
Tusk of elephant, growth of, and in- 
juries to, 334 
Tustan, or St. John's wort, 326 
U. 
Vpu^im {see Hoopoe) 
V. 
Vaccinium oxycoccos (cranberry) ; my-,- 
tillus (bilberry), 226 
Vase found at Selborne Priory, 552 ; 
Chapel field, 561, 562 
Verdure of trees, late, 123 
Vespertilio murinus (bat), 36 ; anrllus, 
(long-eared bat), 36 ; altivolans 
(large bat), 129 
Vegetable caterpillar of Xew Zealand, 
451 
Vegetables as a diet, 215 
Vegetation, 224 
Venison, varieties of, 331 
Vine, diseases of, 259 ; parasite of the, 
259 
Vicarage at Selborne, 477 
Vicars of Selborne, list of, 48 1 
Vinago (cow pigeon), 253 
Vinca minor (lesser periwinkle), 226 
Vipers, breeding, 54, 57, 205 ; oil as 
i-emedy for poison of, 57 ; eggs of, 
57 ; food of, 57, 443 ; in the water, 
57 ; swallowing their young, 57, 
205, 441 ; young of, 205 ; peacocks 
kill, 415; skin of, 443 ; poison of, 
444 ; how to catch, 446 
Virgil's description of stubble burning, 
20 ; bees, 145, 219 ; swallows, 156, 
427 
Visitation of Bishop of Winchester, 
510 
Visitatio Notahilis, the, 5 1 0 
Vitrified stone, 8 
Volcano in Norway, 289 
Vultures, 120, 292 ; and dogs associat- 
ing, 292 
W. 
Wagtails, white, 42, 353; 144, 174; 
motion of tail of, 168 ; food of, 174 ; 
pied, 353 ; four kinds, 353 ; grey, 
353 ; note of, 353 ; pugnacity of, 
353 ; yellow, 363 
Waldon lodge, 21 
Waltham blacks, 16, 18, 332 
Walwort, 227 
AVar between England and France, 498 
Warbler, grasshopper ; sedge {see Wil- 
low wren) 
Wan ens at Selborne, 634 
