INDEX. 
284 
Natural history little attended 
to, 41. 
Naturalist, pleasing* occupations 
of the, 83. 
Nature, designs of, 204 — changes 
in, 221 — tendencies of, to pro- 
duce, 277. 
Nests of birds, 121, 122. 
Newt, the common, 215 — a 
small shell-fish often attached 
to its toe3, ibid. 
Nidularia, the bell-shaped, 94. 
Nightingale, the, less common 
than heretofore, 138 — croak- 
ing of, 188. 
Nosegays, 57. 
Oak tree, description of one, 42 
— several of extraordinary 
magnitude, 43, 45 — the oak 
less fruitful now than former- 
ly, 44 — its value, from its va- 
rious uses, 46. 
Oat grass, 70. 
Pain, instance of insensibility 
to, 17. 
Passerine birds, 172. 
Peacock butterfly (note), 200. 
Peewit, the, 179. 
Phallus. See Morell. 
Pick-a-bud, name given to the 
bullfinch, 114. 
Pimpernel, the, a prognosticator 
of fine weather, 174. 
Plants, blossoms of, 52 — names 
given to them of old, from 
their supposed qualities, 68 — 
pores of, 82 — -decomposition 
of, 89. 
Pollarding trees, 267. 
Polypi of the coral, 15. 
Poor, employment of the, 18. 
Poplar tree, 57. 
Potato, culture of the, 26 — sorts, 
27 — profits, 28— -effects of, on 
soils, 30 — history of, ibid. — * 
value of, as food, 35. 
Prognostications of wind and 
weather. See Wind and 
Weather. 
Providence, inattention to, 234. 
Puff, the gray, 87— the turreted, 
93 — the stellated, 94. 
Rapacious birds, 171. 
Rats, migration of, 101 — other 
particulars of, 151. 
Raven, the, 125. 
Redwing, 180. 
Reeking of the earth, 269. 
Robin, the, 115. 
Roman encampment, 9 — roads, 
10 . 
Rook, the, 128 — its affection, 
129 — -sagacity, 130 — appears 
to be decreasing in numbers, 
138. 
Rose, the white moss, 238 (note), 
the wild, 263. 
Royal forest, indications of one 
in Gloucestershire, 11. 
Seasons, variableness of, 145 — 
effect of, 240. 
Sex, increase of, in 1825, 102, 
note. 
Shrew, the water, 102 — the 
common, 113 — new species 
of, 104. 
Shrike. See Butcher-bird. 
Sinking of the earth, 252. 
Sky-lark, the, 184. 
Smelling, question of the sense 
of, in birds, 132. 
Smokewood, sticks of the wild 
clematis so called, 82. 
Snail, the common, 228 — the 
banded, 231 — -the halotideus, 
238. 
Snakes, eggs of, 208 — harmless- 
ness of, 209 — general aversion 
to, 210. 
Snapdragon, peculiarities of, 60 
—an insect trap, ibid. 62. 
Snipe, the jack, its habits, 176— 
supposed the male of the larger 
snipe, 178. 
