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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![3O2: Hedgehogs feed on flesh, 82; anec- dote of, 83; cannot contract when young, 83. Heliastron, or solar compass, 227. Heliotropes, summer and winter, how to make them, 227. Hellebores, order of blowing, 219. Hen, bold during incubation, 127 ; with cock plumage, 291. Heronry, an account of, 57. Highlands of Scotland, their south- ern boundary, 179. Hind, her courage in defence of her young, 16. Hirundines, British, arrival in three distant counties, 174. Hogs would live, if suffered to a very great age, 202; very prolific, 203. Honey buzzard, 243; dew, 329. Hoopoes seen at Selborne, 25 and 109 ; (upupa eops- ) Hops, soil suited to, 3; observation on, 323. Horns, stags’, longer in former times, 21; room containing many at Lord Pembroke’s, 95. Hornets’ nests, how made, 312. Horse and hen, curious instance of affection between, 184. Horse hairs, in water, supposed to produce eels, 163. Hounds, royal, do not draw coverts with address, and why, 285. House-cricket, 235. Howe, General, turns out wild boars in Holt Forest, 21. Humming in the air, 307. Huxham, Doctor, his account of rain at Plymouth, 264.. Jackdaws, 148. Jar-bird, what, 40. Incongruous associations, 184, 208. Incubation, its effects in taming birds, 6, 175. Indoor nest of a thrush, 288. Insects, organs of hearing in, 214. in general, 306. Instinct, sometimes varies, 256; mistakes in, 257. , Ireland worthy the attention of a naturalist, 178; once inhabited by the elk, 84. Ivy-berries, do not freeze, 328. Lakes, American, diminution of, accounted for, ]97. Lanes, hollow, rocky, 10. Land-rails, insectivorous, 294; birds of passage, and appear ill qualified for migration, 293. Language of birds, 233 ; of fowls, 995, = : Lapwing, account of a domesticated — one, 183; gregarious, 123. Larks, white, 86; grasshopper, curious account of, 39. Larch, does not thrive on sand- stone, 3. : Leeches, reproduction of, 320. Leper, miserable one at Selborne, 208. gsi Sip less common than of old, rom change of food, 208. Leveret suckled by a cat, 208. Linnets, congregate and chirp, 32. Loaches from Ambresbury, 48. Long-legged plover, 240. Loon, or speckled diver, 296. Losel’s Wood, its taper oaks, 5; ravenstree, 5. Malm, what sort of soil, 3. Male insects hatched first, 308. Magpies, cream-coloured ones, 37; voracious habits of, 175. March, two.wonderful hot days in 1777, and effects of that heat, 206. Mare, instance of singular sagacity relating to, 284. Marcley hill, removal of, 229. Marten, house, seen very late, 53 ; monography of, 189; builds her nest only in the morning, 140; peculiar situation of a nest, 143 ; sand or bank, monography of, 157, 802; additional observations on, 247, 253. May-fly, 62; great swarms of in 1771, 811. Mezzotinto, who supposed to have been inventor of, 20. 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33094378_0388.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
