_Cladothrix odorifera_, scent of fresh earth due to, 154 Cockchafer grubs sought for by starlings, 57 Cockerel and martins at Selborne, 166 Cole-tit, honeysuckle berries eaten by, 298 Contrast a source of enjoyment, 203 Coot, the, on the Itchen, 253, 254; his struggles with grebe for water-weed, 255; his parental wisdom, 256; greediness of young corrected by, 257 _Cordulegaster annulatus_, 118; his serpent-like colouring, 121 Courtship by stag-beetle, 71; among the green grasshoppers, 151; among the flower-spiders, 156, 159 Craig, Mr., his observations on the nestling cuckoo, 21 Creighton, Dr., on the young cuckoo question, 14 Crickets, house and field, their music compared, 169 _Croöleptus iolithus_, beautiful tints of the, 195 Crowhurst, hollow yew tree at, 199 Cuckoo, young, its behaviour, 13; in robin's nest, 15; its rapid growth, 15; its spasmodic efforts to eject obstacles, 16-20 Dabchick, _see_ Grebe, little Dark people in Hampshire, 231; two types of them, 231; mutual distrust between blonde and, 234; Iberian origin of one type 236 Dark Water, the, 38; flies on the, 67; _Calopteryx virgo_ on the, 122 "Deadman's Plack," memorial cross at, 140 Death, life-appearances after, 77; unknown to lower animals, 86 _Death of Fergus_ quoted as to the yew, 196 Degeneration, Ray Lankester on, 149 Dog, his recollection of a hidden bone, 108 Domestication, change in habits caused by, 169 Dragon-flies, lack of English names for, 118; their strange appearance, 121; a flight of blue, settled on bracken, 123 Drayton, Michael, quoted as to the coot, 258 Drumming or bleating of snipe, 40 Drumming-trees of woodpeckers, 11-13 Dust-bath, a wren's enjoyment of a, 296 Earth, odour of, 154 Edgar, King, memorial of his murder of Athelwold, 140 Eggs, ejection of, by young cuckoo, 16-19, 22 Elaboration and degeneration, 148 Elderberries by the Itchen, 298 Emblems on old gravestones, 193 _Epeira_, grasshopper killed by, 44 Ephemeræ, destruction of, by swifts, 267 Exe, valley of the, 35 Eye colours, racial feeling with regard to, 234 Family, a more or less happy, 254, 258 Farringdon, cirl bunting at, 173; Gilbert White curate at, 197; yew tree at, 198 Fascination, question of, 95; the weasel's method of, 96; as exerted on mammals, 97; inquiry as to interpretation of, 101; its disadvantage to those subject to it, 102; as exerted by diving-birds on fishes, 262 Fear, paralysing effect of, on birds and mammals, 96-100; on fishes, 262 "Fiddlers," flies eaten by, 68 Field-crickets, sound of, 169; a colony of, near Southampton, 170 Fire, fascination of, for cats, 99; for certain Hampshire pigs, 101 Fire-fly, comparison of, with glow-worm, 124; described by Beddoes, 125 Fish, capture of, by diving-birds, 262 Fishing, instruction in, given by parent grebes, 261 Flavour, purple, of certain fruits, 283 Fleas, their adaptation in size to their host, 104 Forest fly, his tenacity, 34; cattle tormented by, 66