



I spot They are found on Bowers, particularly those of the wild 

 chamomile, Ac. 



C. Sdurftri is about half an inch in length, and of a bright golden 

 green above, or bluish : the leg* and antenna) are yellow. In the 

 female the base of the thighs and the tarai are black. The colour of 

 this species sad the texture of its wing* closely resemble that of the 

 eoinmun Blister Beetle. The general form of the body is not very 

 dissimilar : it in of a smaller size. This species is common in France. 



CKKUl'Il.KS. [PuuriLt-s.] 



CK.Ito \YI.iiN, a genus of plants belonging to the natural order of 

 Palms. C. Atiilifota, the Wax-Palm of South America, is one of the 

 most remarkable plants in the large natural order to which it belong*. 

 It is a species with pinnated leave* and jumieled polygomou* flowers. 

 IU calyx consist* of three small scales ; the petals are also three, but 

 much larger and sharp-pointed. The stamens are numerous, with 

 Tory short filament*. The fruit is a little round drupe, with a single 

 sred of the same figure. 



than bees-wax.. The only parallel among palms to this property of 

 exuding wax occurs in a Brazilian palm with paltunted leave*, called 

 Cornauba. 



( KKTIIIA. [Cr.iiTlllADJB.] 



CKltTHIAIi.K. tin- Creeper Family, a family of l.inln placed by 

 Mr. Vigors under hi* order Scaiuortt, or cliinliing Birds. "The genus 

 Certhia," write* that author ('Linn. Trans.,' vol. xiv. p. 401), "a* 

 originally instituted by Linntoua, contained, besides the true Certhia 

 and ita congeners, which form the extreme family of the preceding 

 :ribe (Piritltr), all those bird* whose slender and gradually . 

 nills and delicate formation of t>ody, added to their practice of 

 employing their tongue* in taking their fo.nl, indicated a strong 

 affinity to each other, and which have since been particular^ 



' 



Wax-Palm (Cerozylon Andicola). 



Thin plant baa received from the American Spaniards the name of 

 Paluia de Cera, or Wax-Palm, on account of the abundance of that 

 substance yielded by the ntein. It grown, according to Houpland, in 

 that part of the Andes which separates the valley of the Magdalena 

 from that of the river Can, in 4 85' N. lat. Below the snow- 

 capped mountain* called Tolima, Sun Juan, and Quindiu, especially 

 the last, the Crrarylm grows in .ill it* grandeur, elevating its majestic 

 trunk, coated with a thick incrustation of wax, to the height of 180 

 feet among the mo*t rugged pro -ipi. -i -.< of tin- wild region which it 

 inhabits OnUke> tits greater part of tin- palm tribe, this species avoids 

 the heat of tropic*! plain*, ami seems incapable of existing except in 

 region* where the temperatnn- is lowered by elevation in the air and 

 the contiguity O f perpetual snow. It i said to make its first appcar- 

 anoe on the sides of the liiiindiu, at :. h, i-ht equal to that of th.- I'ny 

 de iJome or the passage of Mont ( 'cnis ; this is higln-t- than the. region 

 of Cinchona*, and o cool Unit llnmlxiMt. doe* not estimate the mean 

 temperature of the year higher at tl,, ,,i,,,..<t. than 65 or 68 Fahr., 

 which in at least 17 degrees lower than the mean temperature of palm 

 . .'intrii-n. It does not extend over more than 15 or 20 league* of 

 country altogether. IU roots are fibrous and very numerous, the 

 main root being thicker than th.- .-t.-m ibtelf. The trunk in ilir.tin.-th 

 marked by rings caused l.v the fall of the leaves, whi.-h arc from 18 to 

 30 feet long. The pace* between the ring* are pale yellow, and smooth 

 like the tm* of a reed, and covered with a thick coating of wax anil 

 resin. Thin substance, melted with a third nf fat, make* excellent 

 randlea, Vauqnnlin ascertained that this vegetable matter connintn ol 

 two-thirds rwin nn.| one third wax, which in only a little more brittle 



authors tinder the various name* of A'eclarinia, Cinnyrit, 

 \<: To the group thu* known and described by the Swedish natu- 

 ralist, later ornithologists, who have strictly followed hi* steps. 

 added another, discovered since his time in Australasia, similar in 

 habit* and manner*, and now distinguished by the generic title of 

 Mdifhaija. The whole of the birds, however, thus united b\ 

 affinities, and as such generally brought together by 

 writers into one conterminous scries, arc decidedly divisible into two 

 distinct group*, naturally arranging th. 



divisions of the order. The family of ' live upon animal 



food ; while the remaining genera of the Limucan Crrtkia f 

 chiefly upon vegetable juices. The tongues of each, though similar 

 in being more or less extensible, and in being the medium tin 

 which they are supplied with food, are equally distinct as the nature 

 of the food iUelf. Those of the former are sharp and of a spear-like 

 form, as if to transfix the insect* which are their prey ; while those 

 of the latter are divided into tubular filaments, which appear exclu- 

 sively adapted to the purposes of suction. In other particulars they 

 exhibit an equal difference. The Cerlftiada; climb, and their feet are 

 of a conformable structure ; but the feet of the suctorial birds ore not 

 only in general unsuited to that purpose, but they become gradually 

 weaker, and of less use as they come nearer the type of the trilie, 

 where they are so short and slightly formed a* to be serviceable 

 in perching, when the bird is at rest .... The two group* of 

 the Linnsean Cerlhia are disposed in the separate departments to 

 which the distinct nature of their food and habit* more immediately 

 unites them ; while at the same time, by their forming the extremes 

 of their respective tribes, and touching each other at the corresponding 

 points of the circles in which they are arranged, their obvious affinities 

 are preserved inviolate. 



In addition," continues Mr. Vigors, "to Dcndroc<ilir/:ti*, and 

 the true Certliia of the present day, the family before us consist* 

 of a variety of genera which are strongly united by their corre- 

 sponding habits. Among these, Cliauuteri*, Teinm., and Or// 

 Teinm., preserve the strong shafts of the tail-feathers, which are 

 carried on to them from the true Pici. This construction gradually 

 disappears in the remaining groups of the family ; but the strung 

 hind toe, and the tongue more or less extensile, and sen-ing to spear 

 their prey, is still conspicuous. Among such groups we may particu- 

 larise the Ticliodroma, M., and ?>M;m, Linn., together with the 

 Linnican Sitta, and the conterminous form of Xmo/a, 111. Her.- also 

 may be associated the Opetiorhynthiu and Anabate* of M. Temniiiu-k, 

 as also the Ojryrbynchiu of the same author. The genus may be 

 observed to be connected -with those groups of the present family 

 which are united with the genus Yun.r of the preceding; it is a 

 perfect Wryneck, as justly asserted by M. Temminck, with a Cr. 

 foot" 



Mr. Swainson (' Fauna Boreali-Americann,' vol. ii.) places the genus 

 ' ! \\ i. us) among the Urrthiada, which family he also places 

 under the Scatuora. 



Cuvier, the Prince of Canino, and Lesson, arrange the Cert: 

 under the '/' 



The character of the Family is a* follows: Bill sometimes very 

 much curved, sometimes but little, sometimes nearly t>. 

 rounded, slightly compressed, pointed; tongue, simple, eartil.igin.mx 

 at the tail feathers gem-rally worn at the . n.l. 1. 1 



The following are the p-nera enumerated by 1.. 



Certhia. Kill modctately long, more or less cuned, triangular, 

 compressed, slender, pointed: nostrils boml, partially clo.-ed by a 

 membrane; wind's .-h.n-t, foiirt.li quill longest; tail-feathers stiff, a 



' the end. 



C. / l.innA The Creeper, Common Creeper, Tn. 



Creeper and Tree Climber, C. f<m<ilirix (I. inn.). !'ng to 



Helon and others, the Kf'pfliot of Aristotle (Ixxik ix. 17). It is I..- 

 (irimpvreau of the Krcn.-h : 1'ieehio Piccolo. 1'iechictto, Ham- 

 pichino, and Pie.-io Kampiehino, of the Italians; Haumlaufer, 

 Kleinere (iran Spei lit. or Kl.-in.-te I'.aum-H.i.-ker of the (lei-mans: 

 Kiypare of tin. 'Fauna Suecica;' and the I livpian.rg of the ancient 

 llri'tish. 



It has the bill alKint half an inch long, slender, and em ..I: In .id 

 and neck above streaked with black and yellowi -h bron ; a white 

 linu above each eye; irides ha/.l : b:i. k. rump, -n- 

 approaching to tawny : .piills dusky, tipped and e.lged with white 

 or light brown ; covert* dusky-brown and yellowi.-h white, j.i-..dueing 

 a v.-trieg:iUi| apprariiiit e ; a ' \ellowish white lr acros-s the 



