INDEX. 
562 
/Birds, why fatter in frosts, 150. 
congregating of, 158, 170. 
motions of, 253, 255. 
notes of, 255, 256. 
observations on, 125, 319, 
320. 
'Bird's-nest ophrys, 251. 
^Blackbii'd, 54, 121, 306. 
.'Blackcap, 35, 40, 95, 124, 145, 149, 
152. 
Black cock, hybrid, 326. 
iBlack game, 20. 
Black spring of 1771, 365. 
•Blackthorn, 360. 
Blatta orientalis, 344. 
Blind-worm, 64. 
Bog-oak, 18, 19. 
Bog-plants, 27. 
Bomhijlius mcdius, 351. 
Botany, 247, 248. 
of Selborne, 249, 253. 
Bot-fly, 107, 108. 
Brimstone-lodge, 26. 
Brooks at Selborne, 3. 
Buck's Horn Oak, 357. 
Bug, harvest, 106. 
Bull-head, 39. 
Bullfinch turning black, 54, 118. 
Bunting, 47. 
snow, 54, 88. 
Bustards, 143, 156. 
Butcher-bird, red backed, 70, 116. 
great grey, 116. 
woodchat, 86, 116. 
Buzzard, honey, 130, 320. 
Buzzards, 253. 
Calculus from stomach of ox. 111. 
Calendar, Naturalist's, 377, 402. 
Canary birds, 44. 
Cancer, reputed cure for, 67. 
Cane, or Weasel, 53, 121. 
Caprimulgus, 76, 78, 84, 113, 114, 
123, 151, 335. 
Carex cespitosa, 26. 
Carp, 28. 
Castration, 230. 
Cat and leveret, 232. 
Cat and squirrel, 318. 
Cats, electric, 308. 
fond offish, 96 
Caterpillars of the oak, 346. 
Chafers, 80, 81, 113, 123, 335, 343 
Chaffinch, 46, 54, 118, 147, 157. 
Chalk hills, 187, 225. 
Chestnut timber, 359. 
Chiff" chaff, 54, 334. 
Chough, 117, 156. 
Church, Selborne, 410, 411. 
Churn-owl, 84. 
Cimex linearis, 345. 
Clouds, morning, cause of, 365. 
Cob- webs, 211, 213. 
Coccus vitis vinifercB^ 281, 282. 
Cockscomb, 8. 
Cock-roach, 344. 
Coins, Roman, 29, 406. 
Coluber natrix, 65. 
Coots, 255. 
Corn-mills, 504. 
Cornua Ammonis, 9. 
Cranes, 255, 257. 
Cricket, field, 84, 264, 265, 266, 
267. 
house, 268, 269, 345. 
mole, 270, 271, 272. 
Crocus, 252. 
CrossbiU, 39, 156, 189. 
Crow, 117, 122, 130, 254. 
Royston or grey, 166. 
Cuckoo, 83, 146, 147, 155, 227. 
note of, 167, 168. 
Cucumbers set by bees, 361. 
Curlew, stone, 55, 72, 83, 86, 90, 
104, 105, 296, 334. 
Cyprinus, 285. 
Dabchick, or Little Grebe, 255. 
Daker-hen, or Landrail, 14, 328. 
Daws, 73, 74, 75, 171, 190, 254. 
Deer, 21, 22, 23. 
red, in Wolmer Forest, 21, 
22. 
fallow, in Holt Forest, 30, 
31. 
their spiracula, 51. 
Deer- stealing, 23, 24. 
Dipper, 99, 156. 
