340 
Fallow-deer, breathing apparatus of, 35 
, error respecting, 35 
Familiarit}'- of birds, 95 
Family tortoise, more particulars re- 
garding the, 265 
Fattening of animals during moderate 
frosts, 99 
Fern-fowl, flying powers of the, 77 
Fern-owl, or goat-sucker, habits of the, 
280 
Field-cricket, habits of the, 171 
Fieldfares, roosting-places of, 64 
Fish in Selborne streams, 27 
Fly-catcher, singular characteristic of 
the, 25 
Food of the ring-dove, 276 
' required by gold and silver fish, 182 
Forest or sand-stone, 9 
Fossil shells in the neighbourhood of 
Selborne, 7 
trees in Woolmer Bottoms, 14 
wood in Woolmer Forest, 189 
Fowls, partiality for devouring wasps, 
269 
Fox, singular death of a, 273 
Freestone, use and application of, 8 
Game, extermination of, in Bavaria, 18 
Garden cultivation, benefits resulting 
from, 155 
Geolosrical formations at Selborne, 2 
Gilbert White's poems, 334—337 
Glow-worms not always luminous, 296 
Goat-sucker, habits of the, described, 280 
■ , singular powers of the, 52 
Gold and silver fish, habits of, 182 
Grange at Selborne, court-leets held in 
the, 263 
Grasshopper-lark, habits of the, 40 
Great speckled diver, or loon, descrip- 
tion of the, 277 
Grosbeak, food of the, 285 
Guinea-fowls, singular roosting-place of, 
272 
Gypsies, anecdotes of, 139 
Harvest-bug and other insects, habits 
of, 73 
Harvest-mouse, singular nest of the, 30 
Heath-cock, extirpation of the, 15 
Hedgehog, habits of the, 63 
Heliotropes, simple mode of construct- 
ing, 168 
Hen-partridges, extraordinaiy instinct 
of, 273 
Historical records of Selborne, 220 — 225 
Hollow lanes, description of two rocky, 
10 
Honey-buzzard , habits of the, 86 
Honey-dew injurious to trees, 304 
Hoopoe, portrait of the, 27 
Hounds at fault in Hartley Wood, 286 
House-cricket, peculiarities of the, 174 
House-martin, domestic habits of the, 
117—120 
, mysterious disappearances of the, 
184 
, migratory or hybernatory, 77 
, winter search for, 179 
Hunting in Woolmer Forest by 
Edward II., 203 
Hybrid pheasant, description of a, 273 
Ichneumon-fly, services rendered by 
the, 293 
Idiot boy, anecdote of an, 143 
Insects and vermes, observations on, 
287—297 
Insects greedily eaten by various fowls, 
269 
Instinct, singular illustrations of, 185 
Ireland, ornithology of, by Thompson, 85 
John Moreton's election to Selborne 
Priory, 243 
Kite's Hill, singular custom regarding, 
263 
Knights Templars, the, at Shelborne, 226 
Kuckalm the ornithologist, 102 
Language of birds, the, 166- 
Land-rail, habits of the, 275 
Landsprings of Sussex, &c., 126 
Land-tortoise at Ringmer, 104, 111, 122 
Leprosy, causes of the disappearance 
of, 155 
, singular case of, 154 
Linnaeus on the rock-swallow, 70 
Loach, description of the, 45 
Long-legged plover, singular construction 
of the, 176 
Lucretius on echoes, 159 
Magpies, thrushes frequently attacked 
by, 271 
Manor-house of Selborne, 263 
Markwick's comments upon Gilbert 
White's observations, 269—305 
Meteorological observations, 303 
Migration of birds, remarks upon the, 
106 
Migratory habits of frogs, 42 
Migratory habits of the swallow, 54 
Mill of Selborne Priory, 259 
Missel-thrush, pugnacious habits of 
the, 135 
Mole-cricket, domestic habits of the, 
175 
Monuments in Selborne church, 207 
Moose-deer, description of a, 65 
Natural affections of the feathered 
tribes, 112, 114, 134 
Naturalist's calendar, preface to the, 
315—318 
summer evening walk, the, 57 
Nest of the harvest mouse, 30 
chosen by the cuckoo, 97 
, the house-martin's mode of build- 
ing its, 117 
Nidification of woodcocks and field-fares, 
105 
Nightingale and cuckoo, musical tones 
of the, 109 
Nose-flies troublesome to horses, 293 
Nuthatch or jar-bird, the, 40 
Oaks, singular group of, 6 
