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INDEX. 
Page. 
Missel thrush .. 25, 82, 86, 137-8, 261 
Mist, called London fog 304 
Mistiness in the air 257 
Moles 104, 249 
Mole cricket 224 
Moor-hen 213 
Moose deer 87, 90 
Motheater (fern owl or goatsucker) 72, 
74, 99, 106, 191, 212, 214, 273 
Mountain liare 82 
Mouse, common or house 106 
grass 26 
harvest 32, 39, 105 
„ jumper, or field 26, 119, 238 
short-tailed field 26 
Mufflin, rose Ill 
Music, elfects of 239 
Nautili (fossil) 7 
Newts .. 53, 54, 62, 67 
Night singing birds 121 
Nightingale 104, 141 
Nightjar 72. 74, 99,106, 191, 212, 214,273 
Noctule bat 30, 73, 149 
Nose-fly 289 
Noxious insects 94 
Nuthatch : 49, 238 
Oaks 3, 5, 21, 22, 297 
Oak moth (iortrix viridana) 287 
(Esirus bovin 273 
„ curvicauda 96, 289 
,, na-salis 289 
Oriole, golden 139 
Osprey 101 
Otter 90 
Ousel, ring 34, 67, 69, 71, 75, 80, 82, 
91, 99, 100, 102, 159 
Owl, brown 29, 30, 142, 151, 214, 263 
„ white, or barn 30, 89, 150, 211,214 
eagle 82 
Partial frost 303 
Partridges .. 13, 89, 133, 148, 266, 269 
Pea fowl 97, 2! 5, 266 
Peregrine falcon 31, 241 
Pern 133,263 
Petrifactions 6 
Pettychaps genus . . 26, 30, 46. 48, 63 
„ darkfooted.or chiffchaff 65,273 
grove, or sibilant 25, 63, 88 
song, or willow wren 64 
suspected 239 
Pheasants 266 
Pied fly-catcher 109 
Pigeons 212 
„ cushet, wood, or ring-dove 212 
rock 115 
„ stock 101, 114 
Pipistrelle bat 30, 73, 149 
Pipit genus 261 
„ common, or meadow (called 
"titlark" at p. 261)25,213,261 
„ great 262 
shove or rock 213, 262 
tree (called " titlark " in the 
letters) 103 125,126,141,213,262 
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Plants in the vicinity of Selborne 208 
Plestor 4 
Poplar, galls of 298 
Population of Selborne 10 
Portugal laurels endure severe 
frost 249 
Poultry 214-15. 251, 262, 265 
Ptarmigan genus 14 
Pulveratrices 133 
Quails 9, 37 
Kabbits 17, 129, 280 
Rain J46 
Raven 5, 148, 211 
Red-backed or flusher shrike 66, 101 
Redbreast 106, 126, 128, 142 
Red"deer, stag, or hart 14, 23 
Redstart, common, or white fronted 
30, 48, 105, 108, 131, 262 
black 105 
Redwing thrush 25, 82,129, 138, 249,261 
Reed bunting, or reed sparrow 129, 
131, 136 
Reedling genus 76 
fen, or reed wren 99 
sedge (lesser reed-spar- 
row of White) 76, 80, 83, 
104, 125, 131 
Renovation of leaves 298 
Reptiles 51 
British 57 
Ring ousel 34, 67, 69, 71, 75, 80, 82, 91, 
99, 100, 102, 159 
,. pigeon, or ring-dove 212 
River bullhead, or miller's thumb 29 
Robin 106, 126, 128, 142 
Rock pigeon 115 
Rooks . . 145, 211, 214, ,'^45, 251, 263-4 
white 42 
Rose mufflin, or long-tailed tit . . Ill 
Ruff 14 
Rupture ash ; 187 
Rush candles 183 
Rust balls 8 
Sand martin ...... 167, 177, 212, 275 
Sandpiper, common 65 
Scallop shells, fossil 7 
ScarabcBUs (or melolontha) falls . . 7 
Scorbutic affection 199 
Sedge reedling 76, 80, 83, 104, 125, 131 
Seeds lying dormant . 301 
Selborne streams , . . 3 
Sheep 280 
breeds of 158 
Short- winged migratory birds 35, 38, 
50, 93, 134, 159, 262 
Showers of frogs 53 
Shrew ash 187-8 
Shrews 187 
,, water 83 
Shrike, ash-coloured, or sentinel 101 
„ flusher, or redbacked 66, 101 
,, rufiis, or woodchat 81 
Siberian plants 248 
Sibilant, or grove pettychaps 25, 63, 88 
