The natural history of Selborne. Observations on various parts of nature : and The naturalist's calendar / by the late Rev. Gilbert White ; with notes, by Captain Thomas Brown.
- Gilbert White
- Date:
- 1833
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The natural history of Selborne. Observations on various parts of nature : and The naturalist's calendar / by the late Rev. Gilbert White ; with notes, by Captain Thomas Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![mute, 215; echoes, a charming description of, from Lucretius, 2153 curious effect of, occasioned by the discharge of a.swivel-gun, 265. Eels, the propagation of, 42, 163. Edible frog, Mr Don asserts, is found in Forfarshire, 45. Eggs of insects, can bear much cold, 272; eggs of insects, 314; which contain male insects before the females hatched, 808. Electricity, animals charged with, proved, 276. Elm, wych, great size of a trans- planted one, 4. Elms, planted ones, their growth, 4. Empedes, or tipule, swarms of, 306. Erica Mediterranea discovered in Cunnemara, Ireland, 178. European dipper, or water-ousel, an elegant songster, 99. Fairy rings, occasion of, 327. Falcon, peregrine, of, 260. Familiarity of redbreasts and wrens during snow storms, 176. Female birds when old frequently assume the male plumage, 96. Fieldfares; do not breed in England nor Highlands of Scotland, 74 ; anecdote of, 74; food of, 104; roost on the ground, 83. Fishes, gold and silver, 251. Flies, many species retire to houses in the fall of the year, 316. Flight of birds, 92, 22]; of ear- wigs described, 306. Fly, bacon, injurious to the house- wife, 118; whame, or burrel, oestrus curvicauda, 115, 815; May, swarms of, in June, 1771, 311; nose, very tormenting to horses, 315 ; ichneumon, destruc- tive to spiders, 313. Fly-catcher, some account of, 166. Fogs, 198 ; reflection in, a singular phenomenon, 328. Food and climate, their influence on animals, 37. Fossil wood, luminous appearance of, in bogs, 12. 351 Freestone analagous to chalk, 2. Frogs, metamorphosis of, 46; dif- ferent showers of, 44. Frost, that of January, 1768, descri- bed, 266 ; of January, 1776, 270; December, 1784, 274; partial, cause of, 327; gentle, fattens animals, &c. 86; dependent on wet, 266; curious phenomenon of, described, 275. Galls of Lombardy poplar, 822. Gassendus, curious passage quoted from, 258. German silk-tail, garrulus bohemi- cus, shot, 29 ; flocks of, 29; boars turned out in Wolmer, 21. Gipsies, some particulars about, 185. Glowworm, account of, 318. Golden oriole, oriolus galbula, an occasional visitant, 109. Goose, singular presentiment in one, 184. Gossamer, wonderful shower of, 180. Goatsucker, 59 ; use of its serrated claw, 121. Golden crested wren, 42. Greatham, the manor of, its privi- leges in, Wolmer Forest, 16. Grasshopper-lark, 39. Grosbeak, account of, 805. Hail storm at Selborne in the sum- mer of 1784, 281 ; calamities from in France, 281. Hanger, Selborne, 1. Harvest mouse, 34; bug, 113. Harmony of design in the works of creation,, 143, Hampden, John, disinterment of, at Hampton, 205. Hare, the alpine, or white,75. Hawfinch, account of, 26. Hawkley-hanger, the fall of, 280. Hawk-sparrow, the dread of the housewives, 243: blue, or hen- harrier, boldness of, when urged by hunger, 295. Haze, or smoky fog, the peculiar one which prevailed in summer, 1788, 270. Hearing in insects, organs of, 214.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33094378_0387.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
