folk-lore of, 173, 180; poetry of, 176; love superstitions of, 179; proverbs of, 179; local sayings, 179; provincialisms of, 181, 195 (_see_, also, Appendix I., 279); traditions in, 96, 97, 180, 181; barrows of, 196-213; Parish Registers and Churchwardens’ Books of, 226-233; Lepidoptera of, Appendix IV., 319. New Park, 86. Nodes, the, 197. O Oak, the Cadenham, 110. Oaks, character of in the Forest, 16; measurements of, 16 (_foot-note_); “bustle-headed,” meaning of, 183. Ocknell Wood, 113. Onomatopoieia, its occurrence amongst provincialisms, 186. Ordnance map, mistake of, 126 (_foot-note_). Ore Creek, 54 (_foot-note_). Ornithology of the Forest, 260; white-tailed eagle, 260; osprey, 261; hobby, breeding of the, 261; honey-buzzard, breeding habits of, 261, 263, 265; common buzzard, breeding habits of, 265; merlin, nesting of, 267, 268 (_foot-note_); harriers, 268; owls, 269; raven, breeding of, 270; winter birds, 271; woodpeckers, 272; herons, 273; hawfinches, 274; chough, 275; census of birds, 275 (_see_ also Appendix III., 307). Ovest, meaning of, 183. Oxenford and Oxford, true derivation of, 80. P Paris, Matthew, on William II.’s death, 94 (_foot-note_), 95 (_foot-note_). Parish Registers. See Registers. Park Grange, 71. Park, New, 86. Pennington, the village of, 153. Perambulation of the New Forest, the first, 40; the second, 40, 41; character of the second, 41, 42. Pignel Wood, 272, 273. Pigs, right of turning out, in the Forest, 46; breed of in the Forest, peculiar, 259. Pitt’s Enclosure, Roman and Romano-British potteries, at, 220. Pliny on the Isle of Wight, 57 (_foot-note_). Poetry of the New Forest, character of, 175, 176 (_foot-note_). Ponies, Forest, 259. Potteries, Roman and Romano-British, 214; at Crockle, first discovered by the Rev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, 215; at Anderwood, 215; at Oakley, 215; at Sloden, 216; at the Lower Hat, 217; at Crockle, description of, 218, 219; at Island Thorn, 220; at Pitt’s Enclosure, 220; at Ashley Rails, 221; at Black Heath, 221. Provincialisms, Keltic element in the New Forest, 163; the real character of, 173; in the New Forest, 181-195. (_See_ also Appendix I., 279). Proverbs in the Forest, 179. Puck, the fairy, in the Forest, 174; names of fields, and woods, and barrows, derived from him, 175. Puckpit’s Wood, 112, 113. Pulpit, the, of Beaulieu Refectory, 68. Purkess, family of, 97. Q Quarr Abbey, 155. Queen’s Bower Wood, the, 83. Queen’s Mead, the, 83. Queen’s North, 11, 113, 114.