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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![Migration, actual, 60; at Gibraltar, _ ocular demonstration of, 110; Audubon’s remarks on, 254. Missel-thrush, the largest singing bird, 73; pugnacious, 175. Mist, called London smoke, usually followed by dry weather, 328. Moisture of climate, influenced by trees, 196. Mole-cricket, 237. Moose-deer, female, size of, 84. Mount Rusfi, fall of, 231. Mouse, harvest, 24, 29, 34. Museum, countryman’s, 25. Music, of birds, on what it depends, 78; its powerful effect on some minds, 258. Mytiius crista-galli, a curious fossil shell, 7. Naturalist’s summer evening walk, 62. Naturalist’s Calendar, 337. Nests of Nicobar swallow, eaten in India and China, 158; their great price, ib. Newt, water, or eft, 45-49. Nightingale, its geographical range in Britain, 11]. Norehill, 2.. Northern birds, seen in the south of England, 50. Notes of birds, whether innate or acquired, 89. Noxious insects, 115. Nuthatch, peculiarity of its bill, Al. Oak, picturesque beauty of, 1; Temple and Blackmore, 3; Shire, 5; Cowthorpe, 5; large one planted in the Plestor, 4; the great one in the Holt, 321; size and growth of, 320. birds, 170. Oriole, golden, 109. Osprey, mode of taking its prey, 135. Otter, where one killed, 90. Owl, brown, tame one, 27; feed on fish, 89; hoot on different keys, 116; several particulars con- 393 cerning, ib. ; live without water, 133. Owls, white, ans difficult to breed up, 27; do hoot, 131. Owls, burrowing, 52. Page, John, devoured by maggots, 114. Pairing of birds, 89. Partridges, solicitude for their brood, 291. Passenger pigeon, its rapidity of flight, 93. Passeres, order of, contains all the singing birds, 72. Peacocks, their train not a tail, 16. Peacock-hens, when aged, assume the male plumage, 116. Pettychaps, rare at Selborne, 259. Petrifaction, three states of, 7. Phalena quercus, destructive to oaks, 30. Pheasant, hybrid, described, 291 ; hen, sometimes assumes the male plumage, 116. Pheasants, cause of their cowering and squatting, 295. Pigeons, drink like quadrupeds, 165. Plants, catalogue of the more rare in Selborne, 218. Plestor, account of, 5. Plover, the stilt, a curious bird, and rare in Britain, 240. Ponds on elevations, why seldom dry, 197. Poultry, endowed with discernment to turn things to their own advantage, 289. Predatory birds, can long sustain want’of food, 133. Prints of animals’ feet on sand+ stone, 8. Ptarmigan, on its change of plu- mage, 76. Pitinus pectinicornis, 308. Puffins breed in holes on the flat ground, 53. Quadrupeds, observations on, 283, Queen’s Bank, why so called, 14. Rabbits make the finest turf, 283. Rain, mean of, not to be ascertained ~ at any place for many years, 1] ; A](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33094378_0389.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
