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]