INDEX. 
417 
Siskin 136 
Skylark 133, 214, 251, 261 
Sleet, frozen 304 
Slowworm, or blindworm .... 56, 59 
Slugs 293 
Sincrinthus ocellatus 288 
Smiter pigeon 212 
Smother-flies ...... 233, 250, 256, 291 
Snails 229, 293 
Snakes 56, 57, 59, 81 
,, slough 294 
Snipes 26, 50, 103, 126 
Snow 250 
3nowflecks 42, 82 
Song pettychaps 64 
Sora, speckled 10 
Sow, longevity of a 194 
Sparrow 89, 105, 153, 284 
hawk 104, 216 
Spotted, or gray flycatcher 25, 30, 38, 
48, 108, 131, 148 
„ crake 10 
Squirrel 238, 280 
Stag or hart 14, 23 
Starlings 145, 212 
Statistics of Selborne 11 
Sticklebacks 29, 59 
Stilt, blackwinged 226 
Stoat weasel 27, 42 
Stock dove, or stock pigeon 101, 114 
Stone curlew 45, 68, 80, 84, 94, 245, 272 
,, chat 102 
Stonehenge 69 
Sropyn 147, 195 
,, perversion of 149 
Summer birds of passage 117 
Summer snipe 65 
Superstition 187 
Swallow 151, 212, 277 
bank .. ,. 167, 177, 212, 275 
„ chimney 24, 34. 74, 88, 99, 
102, 104, 128, 138, 145, 177, 
197, 214, 241, 276 
„ eave 30, 69, 88, 92, 99, 100, 
102, 106, 152,161,177, 229, 
235, 238, 276 
purple 237 
rock 92, 166 
Swift, common 24, 25, 30, 84, 99, 102, 
103, 170, 177, 205, 212, 230 
white-bellied, or alpine .. 94 
Sycamore 298 
Tamed toads 52 
Tawney hooter 29, 30, 142, 151, 214, 263 
Teal 20, 103, 150 
Temperature of the air 246 
Thaw 303 
,, indications of 249 
Thicknee 45, 68, 80, 84, 94, 245, 272 
Thrush, black, or blackbird 44, 105, 
129, 142 
fieldfare 25, 82, 86, 137-8,261 
missel 25, 102, 178, 212, 264-5 
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Thrush, redwing 25, 82,129,138,249,261 
„ ring, or ring ousel 34, 67, 69, 
71, 75, 80, 82, 91, 99, 100, 
102, 159 
song, or mavis 25, 44, 105, 
129, 142, 264, 249 
Thunder storms 258 
TipulcB 291 
Tit, blue Ill, 112 
,, cole Ill 
,, great Ill, 112, 195, 249 
„ long-tailed Ill 
„ marsh 106, 111, 112 
Titlark .. 103, 125, 126, 141, 213, 262 
Toads 51, 52, 61, 70 
Tomtit Ill, 112 
Toy ousel 91 
Torpidity 24, 30, 34, 69, 100, 139, 146. 
159, 198, 229 
Tortoise .. 135, 146, 160, 197, 228, 260 
Tortrix viridana 287 
Tree creeper 212 
„ pipit 103, 125, 126, 141, 213, 262 
Trees 21 
,, order of losing their leaves 296 
„ (flowing of sap in) 297 
,, (renovation of leaves) .... 298 
Tremella nosire 202 
Tropical trees 21 
Trout 29, 288 
Truflles 301 
Tumbler pigeon 212 
Turkies 215, 265 
Turnip fly 95 
Unknown bird 44 
Uses of the pectinated claw in 
certain birds > 99 
Variable hare 82 
Vegetables, observations on .... 296 
Viper 56, 192 
Wagtails 37, 103,105, 110,126, 212,278 
Warbling, or song pettychaps . . 64 
Wasps 256, 262, 289 
Water rat 26, 83, 149 
^, shrew 83 
Waxwing, wandering 33 
Weasel, common 104 
,, genus 104 
Weather 246—259 
,, observations on 303 
Wheatear 37, 103, 112, 159 
Whin chat 102, 112 
White-bellied, or alpine swift . . 91 
„ breasted fauvet 108, 239 
„ owl .... 30, 89, 150, 211, 214 
,, rooks 42 
„ throated fauvet, or white- 
throat 30, 88, 104, 107, 128, 
131, 213 
Widgeon 20 
Wild bees 288 
,, boar 23 
„ fowl . . 13, 19, 29, 213, 214, 269 
