Food influences the colour of birds

and animals, 60, 305.
Forest-fly, or side-fly, 160.
Foster-dams, 223, 406.
Fossil shells, 20, 397.
Fossil wood, 285.
Fowls, 247, 310.
Freestone, 21.

330.

Frost, its effect on animals, 113; o
trees and shrubs, 289; on fish,
294; on birds, 295.

Harvest-bug, 139.

Hatching of eggs, 107, 114, 404.

Hawkley-hanger, 251.
Hawks, 219, 265.
Hazel, wych, 16.

Heath-fires, why lighted, 30.
Heath burnings, 31.
Hedge-hogs, 109, 404.
Hedge-sparrows, 113, 187.
Hellebore, stinking, 240, 241
Heliotropes, 249.

Hen-harriers, 187, 316.
Herons, 83.
Himantopus 280.

Loaches, from Ambresbury, 74.
Loon, 317.

M.

MAGGOTS, 336; star-tailed, 141.
Magpies, 82, 198, 309.

Marsh plants, 32, 398.

Martins, 42, 49, 115, 121, 151, 164—
170, 182-186, 269, 275, 324.
May-fly (ephemera), 91, 339.
Mazel, Mr. Peter, engraver, 74.
Meteorological observations, 24, 356
-366, 397.

Mezzotinto, the inventor, 35.
Mice, harvest, 46, 53, 188.

water shrew, 104.

Migration of birds, 50, 51, 52, 64,
78, 81, 84, 86, 93–96, 102, 112,
115, 117, 135-138, 143, 146, 152,
169, 199, 305-307, 314, 328, 401.
Miller's-thumb, or bull's-head, 42,
100.

Missel-thrush, 161, 198.
Misseltoe, its utility, 200.
Moose-deer, 111, 119.
Mosquitoes, 159.
Moths, 339.

Mucilaginous seeds, why they do not
readily germinate, 352, 411.
Mus amphibius, 39, 399.

Musca (flies), 343.

Museum, the countryman's, 40.
Music of birds, 279.

Lizard, 79, 85.

Oak-hanger ponds, 32.

RABBITS, 321.

R.

Reptiles, 97.

Respiratory organs, 402.
Ring-doves, 267, 315.

Ring-ousel, 48, 77, 78, 81, 88, 96,
102, 120, 125, 138, 152, 161, 173.
Robin, 187.
Rooks, 307.

milk-white, 60, 403.

Rush-candles, 208.

S.

SALECARIA, 89, 97.

Sand-martin, 182, 324.
Sand-piper, 77, 404.

Scarabæus, or melolontha fullo, 88.
Scallops, or pectines, found in quar-
ries, 21.

Scopoli's Annus Primus, 118, 122, 127.
Scott (Sir Walter), his oak snuff-
box, 26.

Sedge-warbler, 89, 90, 106, 163.
Seed lying dormant, 353.
Selborne, and its environs, 1, 13;
its streams, 15; geology, 16, 396;
parish, 24, 190; zoology, 42;
botany, 238; ornithology, 259,
superstition of, 212.
Selborne-hanger, 13.
Sex of birds, 118.

Sheep, 331; of Sussex downs, 172.
Shrew-ash, 214.

Singing-birds, 98, 106, 112, i14, 131.
Slugs, 347.

Snails, 347.

Rat, water, 104.

Ravens, 19.

Red-breasts,

106, 188.

Red deer, 28.

Redstart, 63, 187, 189.

Red-wings, 143.

Reed-sparrow, 103, 106, 113, 118.
Reed-warbler, 89.