Fox, alarm cry of birds at sight of, 94 Fritillary, silver-washed, 117 Gauchos, singing contests among the, 146 Gentry, the, a mixed race, 222 Gipsies of the South of England, 158 Glow-worm, shining of, after death, 78; impression produced by light of, 124; comparison of, with the fire-fly, 124; quality of its light, 125; doubts as to purpose of the light, 127 Goldfinch, the, by the Itchen, 249 "Good-for-nothing grass," 141, 147 Gould, Rev. W., his _Account of English Ants_ quoted, 88, 93 Grass, false brome, great grasshoppers in the, 141; floating, in Hampshire rivers, 243, 293 Grasshopper, spider and, 43; black, _see Thamnotrizon_; great green, 134, 137; his music, 138; rival minstrelsy of, 142; kicking and biting, 144; the female, 147; her character and habits, 149-152 Grave, single, under the Selborne yew, 202, 218 Gravestones, old, their beauty, 192; their sculptured emblems, 193; nature's softening touches on, 194; under the Hurstbourne Priors yew, 201 Grebe, the little, a persecuted bird, 254; attentions to his mate, 255; his breeding difficulties, 260; his dogged perseverance, 260; fishing taught by parents to the young, 261 Habit, tyranny of, 165 Hampshire, characteristics of the people of, 220; blonde and dark types in, 224; blonde type a mixed race, 227; Saxon race in, 227; the dark type, 231 Harewood Forest, colony of great green grasshoppers in, 140 Harris, Moses, his _Exposition of English Insects_ quoted, 119 Harvest mouse feeding on dock seed, 8 Hawfinch, hunger cry of young, 92 Hawking Club, extermination of stone-curlews by, 293 Hawk-moth and meadow-pipit, 116 Herodotus quoted as to behaviour of cats fascinated by fire, 99 Herons at Hollywater Clump, 210 Hollywater Clump, 209 Honeysuckle, night fragrance of, 58, 270; berries of, eaten by cole-tit, 298 Horn-blower, the Selborne, _see_ Newland Hornet, bank-vole and, 9; fine appearance of the, 128; a South American, 129; his rarity, 130; in late autumn, 131 Horse-ants, struggle of, with caterpillar, 92 "Horse-stingers," 121 House-crickets, their abundance at Selborne 168 House-martins, diminished number of, at Selborne, 174 Humming-bird hawk-moth, beauty of, 113, 115 Hunger cry of young birds, parental sensibility to, 23, 91; of young blackbird, 55; of young cirl bunting, 277 Hurstbourne Priors, yew tree in churchyard at, 201 Huxley on the non-Saxon shape of English heads, 231; quoted as to his own parentage, 240 Iberian type in Hampshire, 235; its persistence, 236; its possible restoration, 237; its dominant qualities, 238, 239; Huxley's mother an example of the, 240 Influences, pre-natal, possible results of, 100; over-susceptibility possibly due to, 102 Insect life, sound of, 65 Insect notables, 113, 123, 130, 177 Insects, honey-eating, in lime trees, 248; rapacious, caterpillars destroyed by, 92; comparative fewness of, in Britain, 110; as viewed by the indoor mind, 111 Instinct, possible over-elaboration of, 102, 148, 262