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]