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
Norfolk, the churches of, compared with those of Hants, 185
Oak woods, attractiveness of, 90; distinguishing beauty of, in autumn, 280
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
_Polyergus rufescens_, over-specialisation of, 149
_Polygonum persicaria_, coot feeding on, 256
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
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
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
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
Spider killing grasshopper, 44; a flower-haunting, 155