Ironstone in Wolmer Forest, 205 Itchen, the river, compared with the Test, 245; a fishing cottage by the, 245, 296; water-birds on the, 252 _et seqq._; an old cottage by the, 300 Ivy blossoms, insects feasting on, 131 Jackdaw, the, a wind lover, 211 Jay, the, a caterpillar hunter, 91; in Harewood Forest, 140 Jenner, Dr., his account of the young cuckoo, 13 Jute type of man in Hampshire, 222 Kestrels with young, 65 "Kingfisher," an old name for dragon-fly, 120 Kingfisher, capture of a, 296; nesting in chalk-pit, 298 Langland, quotation from, 52 Leaves, tint of fallen, 2 Life-principle, divisibility of, 75, 76 Lime-trees by the Itchen cottage, 246, 248; bird visitors to the, 248 Ling, beauty of, in Wolmer Forest, 204 Locust family, England their northern limit, 177 _Locusta viridissima_, see Grasshopper, the great green Loe, Mr., his _Yew Trees of Great Britain and Ireland_ referred to, 200 Lucas, Mr. W. T., his monograph on British dragon-flies quoted, 122 Lymington river, _see_ Boldre Lyndhurst, 154 Mallards in Wolmer, 213 Mammals, woodland tint of, 2 Martyr Worthy, a little dark girl at, 240 Mayfly, the, decrease in its numbers, 266 Meadow-pipit, its struggle with hawk-moth, 116 Memory, lower kind of, 108 Migration, gradual, of swallows, 304 _Mimulus luteus_ in Hampshire, 283; purity of its colour, 284; South American associations with, 286; as a British plant, 287; its wide British range, 287; at Swarraton, 291; old woman's early memories of, 292 Mitford, Miss, on the lack of beauty in Berkshire faces, 182 Mob, the Selborne, 206 Monograph on fleas wanted, 105; on man in Hampshire wanted, 222 Monographs, Huxley on the peril of, 105 Moor-hen, an inquisitive, 213; the, on the Itchen, 253; nest of, on floating water-weeds, 254 Mosaics, cause of pleasure given by sight of, 64 Moth, death's-head, its beauty, 115; and rarity, 116 Musk mallow, the, at Selborne, 171 Names, English, lack of, for dragon-flies, 118, 120; for insects, 178 Neolithic times, Iberians in Britain during, 236, 237 Nestlings, ejection of, by cuckoo, 16-23; strange coloration of, 15, 294 New Forest, abuses of the, 29; paucity of wild life in, 31; its future management, 33; butterflies of the, 117; hornets in the, 130 Newland, the Selborne hornblower, 206, 217; his capture and pardon, 207, 218; his grave under the yew tree, 218 Newman, Edward, colony of green grasshoppers mentioned in his _Entomologist_, 139; his _Phytologist_ referred to as to the mimulus, 288 Nightingale, date of cessation of its song, 89 Nightjar, its care of the young, 39 Nore Hill, view from, 183 Norfolk, the churches of, compared with those of Hants, 185 Northington, immense church at, 290 Oak woods, attractiveness of, 90; distinguishing beauty of, in autumn, 280 Oast-house, old, at Farringdon, 198 Open spaces, the love of, 38 Ovington, watching swifts at, 266; reed-bunting at, 278; mimulus blossoming at, 286; swallows congregating at, 305