INDEX 
TO THE 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
Page. 
Abprdevine siskin, 136 
Adder 56, 192 
Additional observations 261 
Alpine, variable, or mountain hare 82 
Alpine, or white-bellied swift . . 91 
Amelioration of the condition of 
poorer classes 200 
American animals 97 
American and Siberian plants, ill 
adapted for our variable climate 248 
AvTi&*ropyr] of animals 206 
Ants ; 292 
Aphides, smother-flies, or plant 
lice 233, 250, 256, 291 
Arum maculaium, or cuckoo pint 44 
Ash trees 298 
shrew and rupture ashes . .187-8 
Ash coloured shrike 101 
Asses 198 
Auk, little 103 
Auks' and divers' mode of walking 213 
Aurora borealis 305 
Bacon flv 95 
Bank swallow 167, 177, 212, 275 
Barn owl. ...... . 30, 89, 150, 211, 214 
Barragons (a woollen manufacture) 11 
Bats 30, 73, 149 
., common, or pipistrelle . . 30, 84 
great, or noctule .... 73, 84, 98 
long-eared 30 
Bees, management of 248 
„ wild 288 
J, set cucumbers 301 
Bee-eater 1.39 
Bee-moth 290 
Beeches 1, 2, 298 
Beech timber much bored by in- 
sects 285 
Birds, number of British 109 
agency of, in sowing acorns, 
&c '. 300 
Blackbird 44, 105, 129, 142 
Blackcap 26, 30, 88, 107, 129, 131, 262 
Black game, or black grouse .... 13 
„ hybrid do 267 
„ spring 305 
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Black thorn 299 
Blindworm 56, 59 
Blue-throated fantail 213 
Blue tit Ill, 112 
Boar 193 
,, wild 23 
Bog timber 12, 244 
Bohemian waxwing, or chatterer S3 
Bomhyliiis medms 290 
Botany of Selborne 208 
,, philosophic 206 
Bramble-finch 36 
Breeds of sheep 150 
British birds, number of, 109 
,, reptiles 57 
Brittling (slow- worm or blind- 
worm) 56, 59 
Brown owl . 29, 30, 142, 151, 214, 263 
Bullfinch 43, 103 
Bullhead, or miller's thumb (a 
small fish) 29 
Bunting, corn 37 
reed 129, 131, 136 
snow 42, 82 
„ . yellow, or yellowham- 
mer 125, 128 
Bustards 124, 134 
Butcher-bird 101 
Buzzard, common 211, 260 
honey .. 133, 263 
Cage management of insectivor- 
ous birds 125 
Calculi in the stomachs of animals 97 
Campagnol, bank 26 
,, meadow 26 
water 26, 83, 149 
Canary birds 34 
Cane (a supposed quadruped) .... 42 
Carp 107 
,, golden 233 
Carrion crow 101, 201, 214, 251 
Castration 193 
Cats 89, 255, 266, 280 
Chaffers, fern 284 
May 142, 284 
Chaffinch 35, 103, 137, 238 
