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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831. Excerpt: ... ERRATA. Page 32, line 4, for xir. of December, read xxn. 71, --6, for noted, read to note. 75, --20, for allequa, read allegua. 78, --23, insert white before hare. 79, --4, /or at Cheltenham, read to Cheltenham. 95, --15, for It, read I. 118, --20, for gallipaoo, read gallipavo.----7, for domestic, read maternal. 125, --2, for flowers, read flower. 186, --15, for twenty-fire, read fifteen. 237, --20, omit the before smaller ones. 253, --20, for vanissio, read vanissi io. 272, --3, for straggler, read stranger. 303, --18, /or ends, read end. 306, (note, ) omit dim before Euxine. 311, line 3, /or grass, read glass. INDEX. Aborigines of the neighbourhood, 180. Ants, industry of, 154., instincts of, 155. Apis manicala, nest of, 282. Apples, kinds of, cultivated round the village, 285. April, new constellations in, 72., farming business in, 73. Autumn seeds, construction of, 300, 301.:, dispersion of, 302,303. Autumnal foliage, beauty of, 321., change of, 322. Bat, wonderful construction of, 20, 21. Bean-garden, 47. Bee, common, enemy of, 242., humble, anecdotes of, 233--238., construction of, 177. Beech-tree, natural history of, 184--188., finest specimens, where, 185. Birds, movement of, in August, 227., language of, 55--57. sing through the year, 166,167., singing of, how produced, 161--166., affection towards their young, 129 136., what kinds of, seen round the village, 5 10. Bird, lady, 256, 257. Botanical clock, 264. Bramble, 202. Butterflies, different kinds of, white, marble, brown, blues, 253., latest sorts of, 281. Butterfly, brimstone, when first seen, 63, 64. Canary, 350. Caterpillars, geometer, descent from trees, 188, 189. Chickweed, 339. Chrysalis, a, how disengaged from the earth, 143. Cirencester, anciently Corinium, 181. Clothing trade carried
