INDEX
Account of English Ants, by the Rev. W. Gould, quoted, [88], [93]
Adder, life remaining in severed head of, [76]; its basking-place, [80]; its consciousness of human presence, [82]
"Adder-stinger," New Forest name for the dragon-fly, [121]
Agarics eaten by squirrels, [106]
Alarm-cries of birds, [94]
Alga, an aerial, [195]; still essentially a water-plant, [195]
America, South, dragon-flies in, [122]; the camaloté in, [286]; a wasp experience in, [129]
Anax imperator in the New Forest, [118]
Anglers, swifts occasionally caught by, [265]
Anglo-Saxon settlers, a conquering race, [228], [230]
Ants, removal of dead by, [87]; behaviour of, towards queen, [88]; caterpillar hunting by, [92]; vast populations of, [111]
Arum, berries of, eaten by birds, [298]
Asilus, a rapacious fly, [46]
Associations, sympathy with lower animals due to human, [43], [46]; memories recalled by, [107-109]; value of, in matters of faith, [186]; charm due to, [286]
Autumn in the New Forest, [1]
Bank-vole and hornet, [9]
Bankes, Mr. E. A., his observation of nightjars, [39]
Barrow on the heath, the, [48-52]
Beaulieu, historical associations of, [36]; a heath near, [38]
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, quoted as to the fire-fly, [125]
Bellamy, J. C., his Natural History of North Devon referred to, [251]
Bird-life, annual destruction of, [26]
Birds near the Boldre, [6]; their silence in late summer, [89]; mixed gatherings of, [90]; alarm cries of, [94]; by the Itchen, [249]
Blackbird, mortality among young of, [56]; an orphan, by the Itchen, [270]; tamed by feeding, [272]; gregarious instinct in the young, [274]
Blackburn, Mrs. Hugh, her account of the young cuckoo, [14]
Blackmoor, church at, [191]
Boldre or Lymington river, [3]; a house by the, [4]; between the Exe and the, [29], [35]
Bourne, the, or Selborne stream, [171]
Boy, a New Forest, [158]; his ignorance of the Forest wild life, [159]; a naturalist, [295]
Boys, stray, in Wolmer, [216]
Bracken, possible cause of pleasure in appearance of, [63]
Brockenhurst, Croöleptus iolithus on gravestones at, [195]
Bullfinches, [188]
Bunting, four kinds of, by the Itchen, [278]
Butterflies of the New Forest, [117]; moths and, collectors of, [120]; English names of, [120]
Calopteryx virgo in the Forest, [118]; colouring of, [122]
Camaloté, its appearance recalled by mimulus, [286]
Cats, Egyptian, story of their fascination by fire, [99]
Cattle tormented by forest flies, [66]
Celt, the black, Iberian origin of, [236]; Huxley, a specimen of the, [240]
Chaffinch, its especial dread of the weasel, [94-96]; arum berries eaten by the, [298]
Chalk-pit by the Itchen, fruit harvest for birds in, [299]
Churches of Hampshire villages, [184]; Gilbert White's strictures on, [184]; their charm, [185]; wanton destruction of, [186]; their harmony with their surroundings, [187], [190]
Cicada anglica, doubt as to his song, [135], [136]
Cirl-bunting, the, at Selborne, [172]; quality of its voice, [173]; not distinguished by White from the yellowhammer, [173]; by the Itchen, [250]; his song, [251]; his plumage, [251]; its late breeding, [275]; its breeding habits, [275]; its warning note, [276]; safeguarding of young by, [276]
Cladothrix odorifera, scent of fresh earth due to, [154]
Cockchafer grubs sought for by starlings, [57]
Cockerel and martins at Selborne, [166]
Cole-tit, honeysuckle berries eaten by, [298]
Contrast a source of enjoyment, [203]
Coot, the, on the Itchen, [253], [254]; his struggles with grebe for water-weed, [255]; his parental wisdom, [256]; greediness of young corrected by, [257]
Cordulegaster annulatus, [118]; his serpent-like colouring, [121]
Courtship by stag-beetle, [71]; among the green grasshoppers, [151]; among the flower-spiders, [156], [159]
Craig, Mr., his observations on the nestling cuckoo, [21]
Creighton, Dr., on the young cuckoo question, [14]
Crickets, house and field, their music compared, [169]
Croöleptus iolithus, beautiful tints of the, [195]
Crowhurst, hollow yew tree at, [199]
Cuckoo, young, its behaviour, [13]; in robin's nest, [15]; its rapid growth, [15]; its spasmodic efforts to eject obstacles, [16-20]
Dabchick, see Grebe, little
Dark people in Hampshire, [231]; two types of them, [231]; mutual distrust between blonde and, [234]; Iberian origin of one type [236]
Dark Water, the, [38]; flies on the, [67]; Calopteryx virgo on the, [122]
"Deadman's Plack," memorial cross at, [140]
Death, life-appearances after, [77]; unknown to lower animals, [86]
Death of Fergus quoted as to the yew, [196]
Degeneration, Ray Lankester on, [149]
Dog, his recollection of a hidden bone, [108]
Domestication, change in habits caused by, [169]
Dragon-flies, lack of English names for, [118]; their strange appearance, [121]; a flight of blue, settled on bracken, [123]
Drayton, Michael, quoted as to the coot, [258]
Drumming or bleating of snipe, [40]
Drumming-trees of woodpeckers, [11-13]
Dust-bath, a wren's enjoyment of a, [296]
Earth, odour of, [154]
Edgar, King, memorial of his murder of Athelwold, [140]
Eggs, ejection of, by young cuckoo, [16-19], [22]
Elaboration and degeneration, [148]
Elderberries by the Itchen, [298]
Emblems on old gravestones, [193]
Epeira, grasshopper killed by, [44]
Ephemeræ, destruction of, by swifts, [267]
Exe, valley of the, [35]
Eye colours, racial feeling with regard to, [234]
Family, a more or less happy, [254], [258]
Farringdon, cirl bunting at, [173]; Gilbert White curate at, [197]; yew tree at, [198]
Fascination, question of, [95]; the weasel's method of, [96]; as exerted on mammals, [97]; inquiry as to interpretation of, [101]; its disadvantage to those subject to it, [102]; as exerted by diving-birds on fishes, [262]
Fear, paralysing effect of, on birds and mammals, [96-100]; on fishes, [262]
"Fiddlers," flies eaten by, [68]
Field-crickets, sound of, [169]; a colony of, near Southampton, [170]
Fire, fascination of, for cats, [99]; for certain Hampshire pigs, [101]
Fire-fly, comparison of, with glow-worm, [124]; described by Beddoes, [125]
Fish, capture of, by diving-birds, [262]
Fishing, instruction in, given by parent grebes, [261]
Flavour, purple, of certain fruits, [283]
Fleas, their adaptation in size to their host, [104]
Forest fly, his tenacity, [34]; cattle tormented by, [66]
Fox, alarm cry of birds at sight of, [94]
Fritillary, silver-washed, [117]
Gauchos, singing contests among the, [146]
Gentry, the, a mixed race, [222]
Gipsies of the South of England, [158]
Glow-worm, shining of, after death, [78]; impression produced by light of, [124]; comparison of, with the fire-fly, [124]; quality of its light, [125]; doubts as to purpose of the light, [127]
Goldfinch, the, by the Itchen, [249]
"Good-for-nothing grass," [141], [147]
Gould, Rev. W., his Account of English Ants quoted, [88], [93]
Grass, false brome, great grasshoppers in the, [141]; floating, in Hampshire rivers, [243], [293]
Grasshopper, spider and, [43]; black, see Thamnotrizon; great green, [134], [137]; his music, [138]; rival minstrelsy of, [142]; kicking and biting, [144]; the female, [147]; her character and habits, [149-152]
Grave, single, under the Selborne yew, [202], [218]
Gravestones, old, their beauty, [192]; their sculptured emblems, [193]; nature's softening touches on, [194]; under the Hurstbourne Priors yew, [201]
Grebe, the little, a persecuted bird, [254]; attentions to his mate, [255]; his breeding difficulties, [260]; his dogged perseverance, [260]; fishing taught by parents to the young, [261]
Habit, tyranny of, [165]
Hampshire, characteristics of the people of, [220]; blonde and dark types in, [224]; blonde type a mixed race, [227]; Saxon race in, [227]; the dark type, [231]
Harewood Forest, colony of great green grasshoppers in, [140]
Harris, Moses, his Exposition of English Insects quoted, [119]
Harvest mouse feeding on dock seed, [8]
Hawfinch, hunger cry of young, [92]
Hawking Club, extermination of stone-curlews by, [293]
Hawk-moth and meadow-pipit, [116]
Herodotus quoted as to behaviour of cats fascinated by fire, [99]
Herons at Hollywater Clump, [210]
Hollywater Clump, [209]
Honeysuckle, night fragrance of, [58], [270]; berries of, eaten by cole-tit, [298]
Horn-blower, the Selborne, see Newland
Hornet, bank-vole and, [9]; fine appearance of the, [128]; a South American, [129]; his rarity, [130]; in late autumn, [131]
Horse-ants, struggle of, with caterpillar, [92]
"Horse-stingers," [121]
House-crickets, their abundance at Selborne [168]
House-martins, diminished number of, at Selborne, [174]
Humming-bird hawk-moth, beauty of, [113], [115]
Hunger cry of young birds, parental sensibility to, [23], [91]; of young blackbird, [55]; of young cirl bunting, [277]
Hurstbourne Priors, yew tree in churchyard at, [201]
Huxley on the non-Saxon shape of English heads, [231]; quoted as to his own parentage, [240]
Iberian type in Hampshire, [235]; its persistence, [236]; its possible restoration, [237]; its dominant qualities, [238], [239]; Huxley's mother an example of the, [240]
Influences, pre-natal, possible results of, [100]; over-susceptibility possibly due to, [102]
Insect life, sound of, [65]
Insect notables, [113], [123], [130], [177]
Insects, honey-eating, in lime trees, [248]; rapacious, caterpillars destroyed by, [92]; comparative fewness of, in Britain, [110]; as viewed by the indoor mind, [111]
Instinct, possible over-elaboration of, [102], [148], [262]
Ironstone in Wolmer Forest, [205]
Itchen, the river, compared with the Test, [245]; a fishing cottage by the, [245], [296]; water-birds on the, [252] et seqq.; an old cottage by the, [300]
Ivy blossoms, insects feasting on, [131]
Jackdaw, the, a wind lover, [211]
Jay, the, a caterpillar hunter, [91]; in Harewood Forest, [140]
Jenner, Dr., his account of the young cuckoo, [13]
Jute type of man in Hampshire, [222]
Kestrels with young, [65]
"Kingfisher," an old name for dragon-fly, [120]
Kingfisher, capture of a, [296]; nesting in chalk-pit, [298]
Langland, quotation from, [52]
Leaves, tint of fallen, [2]
Life-principle, divisibility of, [75], [76]
Lime-trees by the Itchen cottage, [246], [248]; bird visitors to the, [248]
Ling, beauty of, in Wolmer Forest, [204]
Locust family, England their northern limit, [177]
Locusta viridissima, see Grasshopper, the great green
Loe, Mr., his Yew Trees of Great Britain and Ireland referred to, [200]
Lucas, Mr. W. T., his monograph on British dragon-flies quoted, [122]
Lymington river, see Boldre
Lyndhurst, [154]
Mallards in Wolmer, [213]
Mammals, woodland tint of, [2]
Martyr Worthy, a little dark girl at, [240]
Mayfly, the, decrease in its numbers, [266]
Meadow-pipit, its struggle with hawk-moth, [116]
Memory, lower kind of, [108]
Migration, gradual, of swallows, [304]
Mimulus luteus in Hampshire, [283]; purity of its colour, [284]; South American associations with, [286]; as a British plant, [287]; its wide British range, [287]; at Swarraton, [291]; old woman's early memories of, [292]
Mitford, Miss, on the lack of beauty in Berkshire faces, [182]
Mob, the Selborne, [206]
Monograph on fleas wanted, [105]; on man in Hampshire wanted, [222]
Monographs, Huxley on the peril of, [105]
Moor-hen, an inquisitive, [213]; the, on the Itchen, [253]; nest of, on floating water-weeds, [254]
Mosaics, cause of pleasure given by sight of, [64]
Moth, death's-head, its beauty, [115]; and rarity, [116]
Musk mallow, the, at Selborne, [171]
Names, English, lack of, for dragon-flies, [118], [120]; for insects, [178]
Neolithic times, Iberians in Britain during, [236], [237]
Nestlings, ejection of, by cuckoo, [16-23]; strange coloration of, [15], [294]
New Forest, abuses of the, [29]; paucity of wild life in, [31]; its future management, [33]; butterflies of the, [117]; hornets in the, [130]
Newland, the Selborne hornblower, [206], [217]; his capture and pardon, [207], [218]; his grave under the yew tree, [218]
Newman, Edward, colony of green grasshoppers mentioned in his Entomologist, [139]; his Phytologist referred to as to the mimulus, [288]
Nightingale, date of cessation of its song, [89]
Nightjar, its care of the young, [39]
Nore Hill, view from, [183]
Norfolk, the churches of, compared with those of Hants, [185]
Northington, immense church at, [290]
Oak woods, attractiveness of, [90]; distinguishing beauty of, in autumn, [280]
Oast-house, old, at Farringdon, [198]
Open spaces, the love of, [38]
Ovington, watching swifts at, [266]; reed-bunting at, [278]; mimulus blossoming at, [286]; swallows congregating at, [305]
Owl, tawny, voice of, [4]; a white, at Alton, [164]; brown, by the Itchen, [306]
Pain, undue sensibility to, [25]; indispensable to life, [26]
Parsons, Mr., formerly vicar of Selborne, [218]
Peasantry, racial types best found among the, [223]; ancient and modern, compared, [301]
Pen Ponds in Richmond Park, a coot comedy on, [256]
Pewit, his wailing complaints, [42]; a dead young, [85]
Pigeons, three kinds of, by the Itchen, [249]; blue colour of young, [294]
Pigmentation, variation in intensity of, [233]
Pigs, certain, insane attraction of fire for, [101]
Pike, its attempt to seize a swallow, [36]
Polyergus rufescens, over-specialisation of, [149]
Polygonum persicaria, coot feeding on, [256]
Pond-skaters, flies eaten by, [68]
Priors Dean, small church at, [188]
Privett, large new church at, [190]
Queen ant, deferential treatment of, [88]
Rabbit, paralysing effect of stoat's presence on, [97], [100]
Races, successive absorption of, in England, [236]
Rain, swifts and swallows not affected by, [268]
Redshank, breeding of, [41]
Reed-bunting, song of, [278]
Ring-dove, young of, [294]
Robin, cuckoo's egg in nest of, [15]; ejection of eggs and young of, by young cuckoo, [16-23]; an ejected nestling, [22]; parental insensibility, [23]
Rose, cult of the, [58]
Sand-martins, late migration of, [269]; a dead one, [269]
Saxon type, the, in Hampshire, [227], [303]; occasional reversion to the, [228]; comparison of, with Iberian, [239]
Scent, unpleasing, of yellow flowers, [282]
Seebohm on stories of the young cuckoo, [14]
Selborne, idle visitors to, [161]; a second visit to, [163]; bird incidents observed at, [164]; a third visit, [167]; temperature of, [168]; house-crickets at, [168]; musk mallow in churchyard, [171]; cirl bunting at, [172]; its enervating air, [181]; beauty of the common, [182]; yew tree in churchyard, [198], [199]; the "mob" at, [206]
Shepherd near Winchester, his wages, [227]; a Saxon, on the downs, [229]
Shrews, young, [10]; dead, abundance of fleas on, [105]
Shrike, red-backed, [299]
Silchester, mosaics at, [64]
Snake-skin, apparent continued vitality of, [77]
Snipe, breeding habits of, [40], [41]; in Wolmer, [215]; beauty of young, [294]
Sounds, pleasure in, affected by conventions, [169]
South Hayling, curious yew tree at, [200]
Spider killing grasshopper, [44]; a flower-haunting, [155]
Squirrel, visit from a, [10]; a dead, [103]; fatal fall of, [104]; fleas on, [104], [105]; his irritable temper, [106]; his memory of hidden food, [107]
Stag-beetle, "stags and does," [69]; in search of a mate, [71]; striking a scent, [72]; unconscious comedy of the, [74]; life remaining in severed head, [75]
Starling, note of, [3]; his search for cockchafer grubs, [57]; his untidy habits, [210]; his varied language, [210]; increase in his numbers, [303]
Stoat, rabbit's helplessness when chased by, [97]
Stonechat, his note of trouble, [41]
Stone-curlews, extermination of, by Hawking Club, [293]
Stridulation of grasshoppers, [134]; of crickets, [169]
Swallow and pike on the Exe, [36]
Swarraton, White formerly curate of, [289]; church at, pulled down, [289]; changes in, since White's day, [290]; old woman's recollections of mimulus at, [292]
Swifts, the, at Selborne, [172], [174]; evening gatherings of, [175]; on the Itchen, [264]; destruction of May flies by, [267]
Swinton, A. H., quoted as to Cicada anglica, [135]
Teal, Wolmer a breeding-place of, [212]; his lively disposition, [214], [215]
Thamnotrizon cinereus at Selborne, [177]; his habits, [178]; voice and disposition, [179]
Thomisus citreus, its habits, [155]; its wooing antics, [156]
Thrush, young, [55]; arum berries eaten by, [298]
Tidbury Ring, [295]
Tit, long-tailed, nest of, [7]
Traherne, Thomas, quoted, [38]
Trees, age of, [199]
Turtle-doves in Wolmer, [212]; appearance of young, [294]
Varieties, racial, in Southern English people, [220]
Vegetation by Hampshire streams, [242], [243], [247]
Villages, characteristic Hampshire, along the rivers, [243]
Viper, see Adder
Vole hunted by weasel, [97]
Voles, field and bank, [8]
Wagtail, a pied, at Selborne, [165]
Wallace, Dr. A. R., as to the cuckoo controversy, [13]
Warning note of cirl bunting, [276], [277]
Water-birds on the Itchen, [252], [258]
Water-keeper on the Itchen, destruction of grebes' nests by, [254]; on the Test, his opinion as to dragon-flies, [119]
Water-rail on the Itchen, [259]
Watson, William, on "world-strangeness," [47]
Weasel, the, his place in nature, [7]; dreaded by small birds, [94]; his fascination-dance, [95]; his pursuit of field-vole, [97]
Wheatham Hill, wide view from, [184]
White admiral, [117]
White, Gilbert, his strictures on Hampshire churches, [184]; his connection with Farringdon, [197]; Farringdon yew not mentioned by, [199]; vain attempts after reminiscences of, [206]; his description of Wolmer Forest, [210]; his curacy at Swarraton, [289]
Whitethroat attacked by lesser whitethroat, [61]
Whitethroat, lesser, song of, [60], [138]
Wild musk at Selborne, [171]
Willughby, his suggestion as to colour, [37]
Wine, elderberry, a forgotten vintage, [301]
Wolmer Forest, first impression of, [203]; colour of streams in, [205]; Holly-water Clump in, [209]; White's description of, [210]; its bird population, [211]
Woman, a young, of Hampshire type, [232]; an old, her recollection of wild musk, [292]; an old, a praiser of past times,300
Wood owl, carrying power of voice of, [4]
Woodpeckers, green, drumming by, [9]; in Hollywater Clump, [210]; great spotted, [12]; small spotted, [12]
Wren, its continued use of old nest, [297]; its sun-bath, [297]
Wren, golden-crested, nest of, [6]
Yellow flowers, want of attraction in, [282]; the smell of, [282]
Yellowhammer not distinguished by White from the cirl bunting, [173]
Yew tree, at Priors Dean, [190]; its association with the dead, [196]; called the "Hampshire weed," [197]; at Farringdon, [197], [199]; at Selborne, [198], [218]; slow growth of, [199]; growth of new bark in, [199]; at Crowhurst, [199]; at Hurstbourne Priors, [201]; possible injury to roots of, from grave-digging, [201]
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