DRENATURAL HISTORY

OF SELBORNE & S OBSERVATIONS ON

NATURE W BY GILBERT WHITE

Tosh
774547130
KD 47296 2(2),

HARVAR

OCT 29 1895
LIBRARY

12

COPYRIGHT, 1895,
By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

VOL. II.

PAGE

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Spring in a Selborne garden .

Frontispiece

A Selborne stile . ..

. . . vi

House-swallows .. .

Selborne cottages . ..

. . : 9

Sand martins.. .

14

A nightingale . .

. . . 21

A weasel . .

. . . 22

Redbreasts . .

· · 24

Swifts . . . .

. . : 31

A look across the Plestor.

Facing

Magpies and their nest .

Gypsies in front of “ The Wakes"

· · · 54

A rush-light . . . . ..

Catching bees . . . .

. . 61

A pond on Selborne hill .

Facing

A walk in the vicar's garden

. Facing 80

An old hop-kiln .

. . 92

Old beehives . . .

Facing 95

A village lane . .

: : : : 102

A jackdaw . . . .

. . . 107

Skylarks . . .

. . . . 108

Sparrow hawks .

· · · · · · · · 114

Plowing under the Hanger . . .

. . 127

A successor to White's tortoise in the garden at “ The Wakes” . 137

Burning an old hedge under the Hanger. . . . Facing 141

A jay . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

A modern observer of nature . . . . . . Facing 154