INDEX. 
Wasps, 287 ; nests, 33 
Water, hard and soft, 3 
Water-fowl, 23; rat, 32, 91; snake, 37; 
ouzel, 112 
Water at Selborne, 3 
Water-ouzel, 112, 403 ; food of, 404 
AVater, cattle frequenting 32 ; efts, 
55, 60 ; snake, 57 ; efts spawn in, 60 ; 
fowl, wings and feet of, 83 ; rat, 91 ; 
slirew mouse, 91, 380 ; hybernatiou 
of, 92 ; distilled from trees, 100 ; con- 
'densed by fogs, &c., 202 ; scarcity 
of, 319; wheel, ancient, 322; " bones,'' 
328 ; weed, American, 338 ; vole, 
342 ; rat, white, 343 ; reservoir, 501 ; 
pipes at Selborne ancient, 545 
AVaxwing {see Silk-tail) 
Wavnflete, William of. Bishop of Win- 
chester, 523 
Weapons, ancient, found at Selborne, 
562, 569 
Weasel, 43, 47, 167, 353 
Weather, the, 103, 162, 186, 189, 211, 
238, 277, 289, 461 ; influencing mi- 
gration of birds, 118, 128 ; at Ply- 
mouth, 275 
Weavers downs, 10 
Well-head, 2, 465, 322 
^Vel\, lizard found in, 64 
Wells, depth of, 3, 318 
Wey river, the, 3, 27 
Whaddon Chapel, 546 
Wheatear, 42, 113, 144, 154, 353 ; food 
of, 176 ; does not always migrate, 
43 ; migration of, 353 
AV heat crops, 162 ; bread, use of, 215 
AVhetham hills, 257 
Whinchat, 113, 144, 155, 426 ; food 
of, 176 
White malm, 4 ; rooks, 47, 354 ; larks, 
48, 91 ; hares, 91 ; starlings, 354 
White owls, increase of, 373 
White, Gilbert, birth of, 311 ; pro- 
minent events in the life of, 311 ; 
house of, 313, 316 ; curate of Far- 
ringdon, 317 ; tomb of, 317 ; restores 
Selborne Church, 483 
AVhitethroat, 101, 103, 154, 171, 391 ; 
lesser, 269, 392 ; note of, 269, 171 ; 
food of, 172 : nest and eggs of, 
391 
AVidgeon, 23, 36 
AVilberforce, Bishop of Winchester, 323 
AVhortle, or bilberry, 226 
AVild boars, in AVolmer Forest, 26 ; 
Captain Salonis, 340 ; in England, 
341 ; fowls, 35, 140 ; geese, breeding 
of, 91 ; ducks, 40, 143, 321 
AVil low-lark, 51, 61, 76, 85 ; three 
kinds of, 51, 61, 76, 85; eating 
fruit, 53 ; note of, 86, 94, 145 ; 
sagacity of, 139 
AA'illow-wren, 49, 51, 52, 85, 103, 106, 
269 
AA^illoughby, Mr., 44 
AVincliester Cathedral rebuilt, 467 
AVindhover {see Kestrel) 
Windsor Forest, trees in, 326 
AA^ings of birds hollow, 229 ; placed too 
forward, 230 ; backward, 230 
AVinter birds of passHge, list of, 81, 8 
AVitches, 198 
AVohner Forest, 4, 1 4, 327, 336, 496 ; 
stone found in, 10 ; fossils found in, 
14: wild-fowl in, 15; game in, 15, 
16; Queen Anne in, 16; limits of, 
21 ; scarcity of trees in, 22 ; leased 
l)y the crown, 25 ; soil of, 25 ; boars 
and buffaloes in, 26 ; derivation of 
uame, 359 ; when formed, 465 ; Sir 
A. Gurdon, cmtos of, 496 
AVolmer Lake, 15, 22, 320, 560 ; size 
of, 33 ; coins found in, 24 
AVolvemere {see AVolmer Lake) 
AVolvesin Hampshire, 339, 461 ; Scot- 
land and Wales, 339 
AVoodborers, 322 
Woodcocks, 12, 404; stomach of, 94; 
carrying their young, 110, 404; 
migration of, 418, 122; breeding in 
England, 118; in Austria, 119; 
migration at night, 121 ; occasional 
sluggishness of, 1 22, 1 29 ; food of, 
404 
AVoodpecker, spotted, 53 ; flight of, 
244 ; anatomy of, 397 
AVoodpigeon, 123, 253, 254 ; migration 
of, 3 23, 144, 255 ; wild, 253 ; food 
of, 255 
Wood, fossil, 14 ; lark, 101, 391 i song 
of, 168 ; eggs and nest of, 391 
AVorms, earth, 210 ; use of, 210 ; her- 
ma})hrodites, 211 ; blind {see Blind 
worm) 
AVourali poison, 448 
AVren, 93, 101, 389 ; golden-crested, 36, 
53, 62, 174 ; tameness of, 89 ; song 
of, 170; food of, 174; willow, 356 ; 
wood, 356, 357 ; eggs of, 357 ; nest 
of; 357, 389 ; nest of, built between 
two stoats, 391) 
AVryneck, 174, 431; egg and nest of, 
434 
AVych elms, 5, 325 ; hazel, 5 
AVykeham, AVilliam of, 163 ; rebuilding 
Winchester Cathedral, 467 ; Bishoj) 
of Winchester, visitation of, 509 ; 
character of, 516 
AVynchester, John, elected as Prioi', 
517 
