Iberian type in Hampshire, 235; its persistence, 236; its possible restoration, 237; its dominant qualities, 238, 239; Huxley's mother an example of the, 240
Influences, pre-natal, possible results of, 100; over-susceptibility possibly due to, 102
Insects, honey-eating, in lime trees, 248; rapacious, caterpillars destroyed by, 92; comparative fewness of, in Britain, 110; as viewed by the indoor mind, 111
Instinct, possible over-elaboration of, 102, 148, 262
Itchen, the river, compared with the Test, 245; a fishing cottage by the, 245, 296; water-birds on the, 252 _et seqq._; an old cottage by the, 300
Jay, the, a caterpillar hunter, 91; in Harewood Forest, 140
Jenner, Dr., his account of the young cuckoo, 13
"Kingfisher," an old name for dragon-fly, 120
Kingfisher, capture of a, 296; nesting in chalk-pit, 298
Lime-trees by the Itchen cottage, 246, 248; bird visitors to the, 248
Locust family, England their northern limit, 177
_Locusta viridissima_, see Grasshopper, the great green
Loe, Mr., his _Yew Trees of Great Britain and Ireland_ referred to, 200
Lucas, Mr. W. T., his monograph on British dragon-flies quoted, 122
Martyr Worthy, a little dark girl at, 240
Mayfly, the, decrease in its numbers, 266
Meadow-pipit, its struggle with hawk-moth, 116
_Mimulus luteus_ in Hampshire, 283; purity of its colour, 284; South American associations with, 286; as a British plant, 287; its wide British range, 287; at Swarraton, 291; old woman's early memories of, 292
Mitford, Miss, on the lack of beauty in Berkshire faces, 182
Monograph on fleas wanted, 105; on man in Hampshire wanted, 222
Moor-hen, an inquisitive, 213; the, on the Itchen, 253; nest of, on floating water-weeds, 254
Mosaics, cause of pleasure given by sight of, 64
Moth, death's-head, its beauty, 115; and rarity, 116
Names, English, lack of, for dragon-flies, 118, 120; for insects, 178
Neolithic times, Iberians in Britain during, 236, 237
Nestlings, ejection of, by cuckoo, 16-23; strange coloration of, 15, 294
New Forest, abuses of the, 29; paucity of wild life in, 31; its future management, 33; butterflies of the, 117; hornets in the, 130
Newland, the Selborne hornblower, 206, 217; his capture and pardon, 207, 218; his grave under the yew tree, 218