Adder, life remaining in severed head of, 76; its basking-place, 80; its consciousness of human presence, 82 "Adder-stinger," New Forest name for the dragon-fly, 121 Agarics eaten by squirrels, 106 Alarm-cries of birds, 94 Alga, an aerial, 195; still essentially a water-plant, 195 America, South, dragon-flies in, 122; the camaloté in, 286; a wasp experience in, 129 _Anax imperator_ in the New Forest, 118 Anglers, swifts occasionally caught by, 265 Anglo-Saxon settlers, a conquering race, 228, 230 Ants, removal of dead by, 87; behaviour of, towards queen, 88; caterpillar hunting by, 92; vast populations of, 111 Arum, berries of, eaten by birds, 298 _Asilus_, a rapacious fly, 46 Associations, sympathy with lower animals due to human, 43, 46; memories recalled by, 107-109; value of, in matters of faith, 186; charm due to, 286 Autumn in the New Forest, 1 Bank-vole and hornet, 9 Bankes, Mr. E. A., his observation of nightjars, 39 Barrow on the heath, the, 48-52 Beaulieu, historical associations of, 36; a heath near, 38 Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, quoted as to the fire-fly, 125 Bellamy, J. C., his _Natural History of North Devon_ referred to, 251 Bird-life, annual destruction of, 26 Birds near the Boldre, 6; their silence in late summer, 89; mixed gatherings of, 90; alarm cries of, 94; by the Itchen, 249 Blackbird, mortality among young of, 56; an orphan, by the Itchen, 270; tamed by feeding, 272; gregarious instinct in the young, 274 Blackburn, Mrs. Hugh, her account of the young cuckoo, 14 Blackmoor, church at, 191 Boldre or Lymington river, 3; a house by the, 4; between the Exe and the, 29, 35 Bourne, the, or Selborne stream, 171 Boy, a New Forest, 158; his ignorance of the Forest wild life, 159; a naturalist, 295 Boys, stray, in Wolmer, 216 Bracken, possible cause of pleasure in appearance of, 63 Brockenhurst, _Croöleptus iolithus_ on gravestones at, 195 Bullfinches, 188 Bunting, four kinds of, by the Itchen, 278 Butterflies of the New Forest, 117; moths and, collectors of, 120; English names of, 120 _Calopteryx virgo_ in the Forest, 118; colouring of, 122 Camaloté, its appearance recalled by mimulus, 286 Cats, Egyptian, story of their fascination by fire, 99 Cattle tormented by forest flies, 66 Celt, the black, Iberian origin of, 236; Huxley, a specimen of the, 240 Chaffinch, its especial dread of the weasel, 94-96; arum berries eaten by the, 298 Chalk-pit by the Itchen, fruit harvest for birds in, 299 Churches of Hampshire villages, 184; Gilbert White's strictures on, 184; their charm, 185; wanton destruction of, 186; their harmony with their surroundings, 187, 190 _Cicada anglica_, doubt as to his song, 135, 136 Cirl-bunting, the, at Selborne, 172; quality of its voice, 173; not distinguished by White from the yellowhammer, 173; by the Itchen, 250; his song, 251; his plumage, 251; its late breeding, 275; its breeding habits, 275; its warning note, 276; safeguarding of young by, 276