Hampshire Days

Autumn in the New Forest--Red colour in mammals--November mildness--A house by the Boldre--An ideal spot for small birds--Abundance of nests--Small mammals and the weasel's part...

Between the Boldre and the Exe--Abuse of the New Forest--Character of the population--New Forest code and conscience--A radical change foreshadowed--Tenacity of the Forest fly--...

A favourite New Forest haunt--Summertide--Young blackbird's call--Abundance of blackbirds and thrushes, and destruction of young--Starlings breeding--The good done by starlings-...

The stag-beetle--Evening flight--Appearance on the wing--Seeking a mate--Stag and doe in a hedge--The plough-man and the beetle--A stag-beetle's fate--Concerning tenacity of lif...

Cessation of song--Oak woods less silent than others--Mixed gatherings of birds in oak woods--Abundance of caterpillars--Rapacious insects--Wood ants--Alarm cries of woodland bi...

Insects in Britain--Meadow ants--The indoor view of insect life--Insects in visible nature--The humming-bird hawk-moth and the parson lepidopterist--Rarity of death's-head moth-...

Great and greatest among insects--Our feeling for insect music--Crickets and grasshoppers--_Cicada anglica_--_Locusta viridissima_--Character of its music--Colony of green grass...

Hampshire, north and south--A spot abounding in life--Lyndhurst--A white spider--Wooing spider's antics--A New Forest little boy--Blonde gipsies--The boy and the spider--A dista...

The Selborne atmosphere--Unhealthy faces--Selborne Common--Character of scenery--Wheatham Hill--Hampshire village churches--Gilbert White's strictures--Churches big and little--...

Wolmer Forest--Charm of contrast and novelty in scenery--Aspect of Wolmer--Heath and pine--Colour of water and soil--An old woman's recollections--Story of the "Selborne mob"--P...

The Hampshire people--Racial differences in neighbouring counties--A neglected subject--Inhabitants of towns--Gentry and peasantry--Four distinct types--The common blonde type--...

Test and Itchen--Vegetation--Riverside villages--The cottage by the river--Itchen valley--Blossoming limes--Bird visitors--Goldfinch--Cirl bunting--Song--Plumage--Three common r...

Morning in the valley--Abundance of swifts--Unlikeness to other birds--Mayfly and swallows--Mayfly and swift--Bad weather and hail--Swallows in the rain--Sand martins--An orphan...

Yellow flowers--Family likeness in flavours and scents--_Mimulus luteus_--Flowers in church decoration--Effect of association--_Mimulus luteus_ as a British plant--A rule as to...

Autumn in the New Forest--Red colour in mammals--November mildness--A house by the Boldre--An ideal spot for small birds--Abundance of nests--Small mammals and the weasel's part...

Between the Boldre and the Exe--Abuse of the New Forest--Character of the population--New Forest code and conscience--A radical change foreshadowed--Tenacity of the Forest fly--...

A favourite New Forest haunt--Summertide--Young blackbird's call--Abundance of blackbirds and thrushes, and destruction of young--Starlings breeding--The good done by starlings-...

The stag-beetle--Evening flight--Appearance on the wing--Seeking a mate--Stag and doe in a hedge--The ploughman and the beetle--A stag-beetle's fate--Concerning tenacity of life...

Cessation of song--Oak woods less silent than others--Mixed gatherings of birds in oak woods--Abundance of caterpillars--Rapacious insects--Wood ants--Alarm cries of woodland bi...

Insects in Britain--Meadow ants--The indoor view of insect life--Insects in visible nature--The humming-bird hawk-moth and the parson lepidopterist--Rarity of death's-head moth-...

Great and greatest among insects--Our feeling for insect music--Crickets and grasshoppers--_Cicada anglica_--_Locusta viridissima_--Character of its music--Colony of green grass...

Hampshire, north and south--A spot abounding in life--Lyndhurst--A white spider--Wooing spider's antics--A New Forest little boy--Blonde gipsies--The boy and the spider--A dista...

The Selborne atmosphere--Unhealthy faces--Selborne Common--Character of scenery--Wheatham Hill--Hampshire village churches--Gilbert White's strictures--Churches big and little--...

Wolmer Forest--Charm of contrast and novelty in scenery--Aspect of Wolmer--Heath and pine--Colour of water and soil--An old woman's recollections--Story of the "Selborne mob"--P...

The Hampshire people--Racial differences in neighbouring counties--A neglected subject--Inhabitants of towns--Gentry and peasantry--Four distinct types--The common blonde type--...

Test and Itchen--Vegetation--Riverside villages--The cottage by the river--Itchen valley--Blossoming limes--Bird visitors--Goldfinch--Cirl bunting--Song--Plumage--Three common r...

Morning in the valley--Abundance of swifts--Unlikeness to other birds--Mayfly and swallows--Mayfly and swift--Bad weather and hail--Swallows in the rain--Sand-martins--An orphan...

Yellow flowers--Family likeness in flavours and scents--_Mimulus luteus_--Flowers in church decoration--Effect of association--_Mimulus luteus_ as a British plant--A rule as to...