crease of, 108; and frosts, 112, 113; feeding young on the wing, 75; and swifts, supposed rivalry between, 115; late, 128; food of, 148; lice of, 135; washing while flying, 85, 148; early, 145; nidification of, 145; eggs of, 146; song of, 148; tail of, 87, 148; and hawks, 158; appearance of, 162; appearing in hot weather, 186; chimney (see Swallow, house) fond of water, 233. Swans, 88; migration of, 122. Sweden, birds of, 90. Swifts, hybernation of, 26; early migration of, 66, 159; great white-bellied, 77, 160; note of, 125, 160; staying late, 82; appearance of, 86; or black martin, 155; nidification of, 155; propagation of, 159; food of, 157, 158, 161; and hawks, 158; young of, 158, 161; colour of, 159; fleas of, 160, 223; feet of, 160; in London, 160; similar to cuckoo in formation, 180; pairing every year in same number, 195; late breeding, 223; late departure of, 224. Sycamore, 439. Sylvia loquax, lesser willow wren, 49; trochilus, larger willow wren, 49; curruca, lesser white throat, 233. Thermometers, use of, 249. Thrush, the, 39; food of, 39, 408; nidification of, 409; killed by frost, 247. Thrush, missel, 32; fierceness of, 163; fight with a magpie, 163; food of, 409. Thunderstorms, rarity of, at Selborne, 253. Tiles first used for roofs, 341. Timber, good soil for, 5; in Holt Forest, 24; chestnut, 440. Tipula (Long-legs), 185, 433. Titlark, or tree-pipit, 107, 117; feeding in winter, 407; singing, 85; at night, 108. Titmouse, song of, 89; great, 89; food of, 92; bill of, 92; blue, 92; great blackheaded, 92; long-tailed, 92; marsh, 92; pulling straws from eaves, 92, 242. Toads, breeding of, 43; venom of, 43; tame, 44, 54; man swallowing a, 44; as a cure for cancer, 48, 53. Tombs in Selborne Church, 265, 267. Toothwort, 200, 393. Tortoise, land, 117, 130, 221; hybernation of, 117, 130, 144, 186, 221; food of, 117; age of, 118; feeding before rain, 129; instinct of, 352. Travelling mountains, 209. Trees, order of losing their leaves, 437; size and growth, 437; flowing of sap, 438. Trees and forests, effect of, on rainfall, 176; perfect alembics, 175; killed by frost, 243, 249; in churchyards, 273. Tringa hypoleucus (see Sandpiper), 50. Trotton Church, 390. Trout (trutta fluviatilis), 29. Truffles, 201, 443. Tunbridge, 343. Turdus torquatus (see Ring ouzel); Warbler, grasshopper; sedge (see pilaris (see Fieldfare). Turnip fly, 79. Tutsan, or St. John's wort, 200, 397. Upupa (Hoopoe), 29. Vaccinium oxycoccos (cranberry), 199; Vegetables as a diet, 190. Vine, diseases of, 224; parasite of Vicarage at Selborne, 270. Vipers, breeding, 43, 45, 180, 389; 193; swallows, 145; echo, 193. Visitation of Bishop of Winchester, 303. Visitatio Notabilis, the, 303, et sec. Volcano in Norway, 252. Willow wren). Wasps, 251; nests, 407, 431. Water, hard and soft, 5. 116. Water at Selborne, 5. Weather, the, 71, 150, 163, 164, Well, lizard found in, 51. Wheat crops, 443; bread, use of, Whinchat, 86, 117, 144; food of, White malm, 5; rooks, 38, 39; Vultures, 121, 236; and dogs Widgeon, 23, 29. Wagtails, white, 35, 86, 91, 420; motion of tail of, 88; food of, 91; grey, 420; yellow, 35. Waldon lodge, 20. Waltham blacks, 17, 18. Walwort, 201, 398. Whortle, or bilberry, 200, 398. fowls, 29, 133; geese, breeding Willow lark, 49, 59; note of, 63, 87. Willow-wren, 42, 49, 71, 132, 233. War between England and France, Winchester Cathedral, rebuilt, 264. 292. Windhover (see Kestrel). Witches, 174. Wolmer Forest, 5, 15, 290; stone found in, 10; fossil wood found in, 16; wild-fowl in, 16; game in, 17; Queen Anne in, 17; limits of, 21; scarcity of trees in, 22; leased by the crown, 24; soil of, 24; boars and buffaloes in, 25; when formed, 262; Sir A. Gurdon, custos of, 290. Wolmer Lake, 22; coins found in, 23. 1 TX7.1 I akal Wood, fossil, 16; lark, 110; song of, 88. 185; Worms, earth, 184; use of, 184, 434 hermaphrodites, blind (see Blind worm). Wornils (maggots), 416. Wren, 107, 110; golden-crested, 43; tameness of, 107; song of, 89; food of, 91; willow, 49. Wryneck, 91, 100, 390, 421. Wych elms, 6; hazel, 6. Wykeham, William of, 152; rebuilding Winchester Cathedral, 264; Bishop of Winchester, visitation of, 303; character of, 310. Wynchester, John, elected as Prior, 212 |