Owl, tawny, voice of, 4; a white, at Alton, 164; brown, by the Itchen, 306 Pain, undue sensibility to, 25; indispensable to life, 26 Parsons, Mr., formerly vicar of Selborne, 218 Peasantry, racial types best found among the, 223; ancient and modern, compared, 301 Pen Ponds in Richmond Park, a coot comedy on, 256 Pewit, his wailing complaints, 42; a dead young, 85 Pigeons, three kinds of, by the Itchen, 249; blue colour of young, 294 Pigmentation, variation in intensity of, 233 Pigs, certain, insane attraction of fire for, 101 Pike, its attempt to seize a swallow, 36 Pixie mounds, 47, 48 _Polyergus rufescens_, over-specialisation of, 149 _Polygonum persicaria_, coot feeding on, 256 Pond-skaters, flies eaten by, 68 Priors Dean, small church at, 188 Privett, large new church at, 190 Queen ant, deferential treatment of, 88 Rabbit, paralysing effect of stoat's presence on, 97, 100 Races, successive absorption of, in England, 236 Rain, swifts and swallows not affected by, 268 Redshank, breeding of, 41 Reed-bunting, song of, 278 Ring-dove, young of, 294 Robin, cuckoo's egg in nest of, 15; ejection of eggs and young of, by young cuckoo, 16-23; an ejected nestling, 22; parental insensibility, 23 Rose, cult of the, 58 Sand-martins, late migration of, 269; a dead one, 269 Saxon type, the, in Hampshire, 227, 303; occasional reversion to the, 228; comparison of, with Iberian, 239 Scent, unpleasing, of yellow flowers, 282 Seebohm on stories of the young cuckoo, 14 Selborne, idle visitors to, 161; a second visit to, 163; bird incidents observed at, 164; a third visit, 167; temperature of, 168; house-crickets at, 168; musk mallow in churchyard, 171; cirl bunting at, 172; its enervating air, 181; beauty of the common, 182; yew tree in churchyard, 198, 199; the "mob" at, 206 Shepherd near Winchester, his wages, 227; a Saxon, on the downs, 229 Shrews, young, 10; dead, abundance of fleas on, 105 Shrike, red-backed, 299 Silchester, mosaics at, 64 Snake-skin, apparent continued vitality of, 77 Snipe, breeding habits of, 40, 41; in Wolmer, 215; beauty of young, 294 Sounds, pleasure in, affected by conventions, 169 South Hayling, curious yew tree at, 200 Spider killing grasshopper, 44; a flower-haunting, 155 Squirrel, visit from a, 10; a dead, 103; fatal fall of, 104; fleas on, 104, 105; his irritable temper, 106; his memory of hidden food, 107 Stag-beetle, "stags and does," 69; in search of a mate, 71; striking a scent, 72; unconscious comedy of the, 74; life remaining in severed head, 75 Starling, note of, 3; his search for cockchafer grubs, 57; his untidy habits, 210; his varied language, 210; increase in his numbers, 303 Stoat, rabbit's helplessness when chased by, 97 Stonechat, his note of trouble, 41 Stone-curlews, extermination of, by Hawking Club, 293 Stridulation of grasshoppers, 134; of crickets, 169 Swallow and pike on the Exe, 36