Lime-kiln, frightful consequences of a traveller’s sleeping on one, 17. Linnet, the, 112. Longevity. See Life. Magpie, the, 132. Manure, picking it from grass lands for corn-lands, a bad practice, 40. Maple tree, 79 — the under sides of the leaves of, a beautiful microscopic object, 80. Marten cat, the, 95. Maypoles, now seldom seen, 246. Migration of birds, 110, 145. Mistletoe, 71. Moles, 104 — their sense of smelling, 106 — rankness of their flesh, 108. Morell, the stinking, 92 — the esculent, 94. Moth, the ghost, 192 — the hawk, 197 — the yellow under-wing, 200 — the gamma, 201 — the goat, 202 — the death’s-head, 222 — the ermine, 243. Mouse, the harvest, 99 — the water, 101 — the common, 151 — the meadow, and long-tailed, ibid. Natural affection, 133. Natural history little attended to, 41. Naturalist, pleasing occupations of the, 83. Nature, designs of, 204 — changes in, 221 — tendencies of, to produce, 277. Nests of birds, 121, 122. Newt, the common, 215 — a small shell-fish often attached to its toes, ibid. Nidularia, the bell-shaped, 94. Nightingale, the, less common than heretofore, 138 — croaking of, 188. Nosegays, 57. Oak tree, description of one, 42 — several of extraordinary magnitude, 43, 45 — the oak less fruitful now than formerly, 44 — its value, from its various uses, 46. Oat-grass, 70. Pain, instance of insensibility to, 17. Passerine birds, 172. Peacock butterfly (note), 200. Peewit, the, 179. Phallus. See Morell. Pick-a-bud, name given to the bull-finch, 114. Pimpernel, the, a prognosticator of fine weather, 174. Plants, blossoms of, 52 — names given to them of old, from their supposed qualities, 68 — pores of, 82 — decomposition of, 89. Pollarding trees, 267. Polypi of the coral, 15. Poor, employment of the, 18. Poplar tree, 57. Potato, culture of the, 26 — sorts, 27 — profits, 28 — effects of, on soils, 30 — history of, ibid. — value of, as food, 35. Prognostications of wind and weather. See Wind and Weather. Providence, inattention to, 234. Puff, the gray, 87 — the turreted, 93 — the stellated, 94. Rapacious birds, 171. Rats, migration of, 101 — other particulars of, 151. Raven, the, 125. Redwing, 180. Reeking of the earth, 269. Robin, the, 115. Roman encampment, 9 — roads, 10. Rook, the, 128 — its affection, 129 — sagacity, 130 — appears to be decreasing in numbers, 138. Rose, the white moss, 238 (note), the wild, 263. Royal forest, indications of one in Gloucestershire, 11. Seasons, variableness of, 145 — effect of, 240. Sex, increase of, in 1825, 102, note. Shrew, the water, 102 — the common, 113 — new species of, 104. Shrike. See Butcher-bird. Sinking of the earth, 252. Sky-lark, the, 184. Smelling, question of the sense of, in birds, 132. Smokewood, sticks of the wild clematis so called, 82. Snail, the common, 228