INDEX. 249 



Cricket (mole) described; thought to be amphibious; the 

 number of their eggs ; most detested by gardeners ; its 

 devastations ; precautions of the female against the black 

 beetle ; their care and assiduity in the preservation of their 

 young, vi. 31. 



Croches, in the head of a stag, ii. 317. 



Crocodile, extraordinary combat between this animal and the 

 tiger, ii. 426 ; the ichneumon discovers and destroys its 

 eggs ; kills its young, and sometimes entering the mouth of 

 the crocodile, when sleeping on the shore, effectually de- 

 stroys it, iii. 90. The eggs it lays in the sand at a time 

 often amount to three or four hundred, 94. The places 

 where found, together with their dimensions ; description ; 

 several examples of taking a man out of a canoe from his 

 companions, notwithstanding all opposition and assistance ; 

 terrible even upon land ; its depredations ; combats between 

 the crocodile and the tiger; in what manner it seizes its 

 prey ; how a negro ventures to attack this animal in its own 

 element; manner of taking it in Siam ; often managed like 

 a horse ; a curb put into its mouth, and the rider directs it 

 as he likes ; manner of taking it along the rivers of Africa ; 

 pools of water where bred, as we breed carp in our ponds; 

 in Egypt, and other long-peopled countries, this animal 

 solitary and fearful ; in the river San Domingo, they are 

 most inoffensive ; children play with them, and ride about 

 on their backs ; beat them without receiving the smallest 

 injury; probable opinion, its musky substance amassed in 

 glands under the legs and arms ; its flesh ; the eggs to the 

 savages most delicate morsels ; all breed near fresh waters ; 

 precautions in laying their eggs ; the female having intro- 

 duced her young to their natural element, she and the male 

 become their most formidable enemies; the open-bellied 

 crocodile thought viviparous; has a false belly like the 

 opossum, for the young to creep out and in, as danger or 

 necessity requires ; their age ; produced to fight at the 

 amphitheatre at Rome, v. 290, &c. 

 Croppers, a kind of pigeons, iv. 240. 

 Cross-bill, a bird of the sparrow-kind, iv. 255. 

 Crossed fox, an animal between the dog and fox, iii. 60. See 



Isatis. 



Crown, in the head of a stag, ii. 317. 



Crows fetch and carry with the docility of a spaniel, iv. 1 79. 

 The Carrion-crow resembles the raven in appetites, laying, 

 and manner of bringing up its young ; the Royston-crow, 

 182. 



Crustaceous fishes, v. 159. 

 Cub, the fox is so called during the first year, iii. 49. Born 



blind, like those of the dog, 51. 

 Cuckoo, fables invented of this bird, now sufficiently refuted ; 



