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Buffon, (M.) his theory of the earth, and a detail of it, 10, 11 ; 

 questions that might, he asked this most ingenious philosopher con- 

 cerning his theory of the earth ; he has brought together a multi- 

 tude of facts relative to the history of the earth, 11 ; his system 

 about the rudiments of animals, 124 ; objections against it, ib. ; 

 thinks that women never become bald, 142 ; his description of 

 the first sensations of a man just brought into existence, pointing 

 out the steps by which lie arrived at reality, 171, 172. 



Buffoon-bird, name our sailors gave the Numidian crane ; its pe- 

 culiar gestures and contortions ; the French call it demoiselle ; is 

 a vcrv scarce bird ; the ancients have described a buffoon-bird, but 

 not meant the Numidian crane, 5.71. 



Jliii;, the May-bug. See Beetles. 



Bugs, their habits; described ; are often found coupling tail to 

 tail ; manner of destroying them ; they devour fleas, and devour 

 each other. 7 .">('>. 7~i~. 



Hn'hous. h;iir is so at the root, 143. 



liii'in. :: BeOHHiail, performs the office of male and female at the 

 same time, (''">. 



li/ili, tlic gimerro asserted to be between the ass and the bull, 220. 



ISii'fmch, bird of the sparrow kind, 538, 539 ; may be taught to 

 whistle to a regular tune, 540. 



llitil-lninl, description of this fish, 206. 



Hulls, thu wild, in Spain mean despicable animals ; have nothing 

 of that sternness of aspect remarkable in our bulls, 2'.iO. 



llu/l.'f-1-iif:, thu name given by sailors to a terrible hurricane ; 

 described, 105. 



Hunting, bird of the sparrow kind, 537. 



Jluniet, his theory of the earth ; a detail of that work, 7, 8. 



I'.iistard, the largest land-bird that is a native of Britain ; inha- 

 bits the open and extensive plain ; is much larger than the turkey, 

 tho male generally weighing from twenty -five to twenty -seven 

 pounds; its description ; places where frequently seen in flocks of 

 \\i\\- or mor:; ; its food ; they have sentinels ahvavs placed at pro- 

 inenccs, ever on the watch, to warn the flock of the appear- 

 ance of danger ; are often run-down by greyhounds ; in what man- 

 n ir . I wander above twenty or thirty miles from home ; 



lea have a pouch, holding near seven quarts of water ; they 

 their mates at the season of incubation, about the latter end 

 nier ; separate in pairs, if there be a sufficiency of females 

 fur the males ; otherwise the males fight until one of them falls ; in 

 France, some of those victims of gallantry found dead in the fields ; 

 their nests made upon the ground ; they lay two eggs almost of the 

 size of a goose-egg ; Inteli in about five weeks; the young run 

 about as so:m as out of the shell ; they assemble in flocks in Octo- 

 ber, and keep together till April; their food in winter; in some 

 parts of Switzerland they are found frozen in the fields in severe 

 weather : when taken to a warm place, they again recover ; usual- 

 ly live fifteen years, and are incapable of being propagated in a do- 

 mestic state. 50 1, 505. 



Butcher-binl, its description, with its habits ; leads a life of con- 

 tinual combat ; intrepidity of this little creature, in going to war 

 with the pie, the crow, and the kestril, all above four times bigger 

 than itself; it fights upon the defensive, and often comes to tlic at- 

 tack with advantage, particularly when the male and female unite 

 to protect their young, a. id to drive away the more powerful birds 

 of rapine ; in what manner they sally forth against them ; some- 

 times the combat ends with the destruction of tlu assailant, and 

 also of the defender ; the most redoubtable birds of prev respect 

 >!u-m, and they fly in their company without fearing their power or 

 avoiding their resentment; small birds are its usual food; and 

 when it lias killed the bird or insect, as asserted by the best au- 

 thority, it fixes them upon some neighbouring thorn, and when 

 thus spitted, pulls them to pieces with its bill ; the smaller red 

 butcher-bird migrates ; the places where they are to be found ; their 

 nests, and the number of their eggs ; the feinale feeds her young 

 with caterpillars and other insects, but soon after accustoms them 

 to flesh procured by the male with great industry ; their nature 

 very different from other birds of pre.y in their parental care ; for 

 instead of driving out their young from the nest to shift for them- 

 selves, they keep them with care, and even when adult do not for- 

 sake them ; the whole, brood thus live in a familv together ; each 

 family afterwards live ap:>rt. and build in concert ; upon the return- 

 ing season of courtship, this union is at an end; the manner of (lying 

 is always up am! down, seldom direct or sideways ; different kinds 

 of this bird. 4,-<:. 



ttultcr, tho fat of the ma.ir.it i serves in all cases instead of 

 Jiutter. 



Butterfly, some kinds actually live upon little or nothing, 153 ; 

 one of tho principal ornaments of oriental poetry ; in those coun- 

 tries, the insect is larger and more beautiful than with us ; easily 



NO 77 &, 78. 



distinguished from flies of every other kind iiy i ; Lin- 



niEUS has reckoned up above seven hundred and sixty different 

 kinds, yet the catalogue is incomplete ; number and beauti'.ul co- 

 lours of its wings ; butterflies can di-'cover their mates at more than 

 a mile distance ; description of the head, corselet, and body ; the 

 eyes have not all the same form ; but the outward coat has a lustre, 

 in which may be discovered all the colours of the rainbow ;.when 

 examined closely, it hn* the appearance of a multiplying glass; tha 

 use of their horns or feelers, as yet unknown ; the uso of their 

 trunks; difference between butterflies and tuol:^ -n per- 



ceive the approach of the female at about two m re ; by 



what sense is not easy to conceive ; it h:ts no organs for smelling : 

 the female is larger than the male ; if disturbed while united, the 

 female flies off with the male on her back, entirely passive on the 

 occasion ; after junction they deposit their eggs and die ; all females 

 of this tribe are impregnated by the e aperture, and lay 



their egg" by another ; every butterfly chooses for her bro.xj. in- 

 stead oi'tiio plant most grateru] in >t. !te. that which it 

 has fed upon in its reptile form ; how they keep their eggs warm, 

 and also entirely concealed ; many do not lay till the winter warns 

 them of their approaching end ; some continue the whole winter in 

 hollows of trees, and do not provide for poster it' 1 until the beginning 

 of April, then leave their retreats, deposit their eggs, and die, 

 791 to 7:)4. See jiurrlia, 7.-1 



Buttufl;, in man, different from that of all other animals. 148. 



Buzzorrf, a sluggish, inactive bird ; ofien remains perched whole 

 days upon the same bough ; lives more upon frogs, mice, and in 

 suets, than upon birds ; more troublesome to seize; its manner of 

 living in summer ; resembles the owl kind in his countenance more 

 Ih.j.'i any other rapacious bird of prey ; so little capable of instruc- 

 tion that it is a proverb to call one obstinately ignorant, a buzzard ; 

 the honey-buzzard, the moor-buzzard, and the lieu-barrier, are of this 

 stupid tribe, and differ chiefly in their size. 4I!.">. 



Byron. (C'ommodure) our last voyager that has seen the gigantic 

 race of mankind, l!'l. 



i, the same animal as the rapihara, 2^-i. 



Cac/iuli/t. a fish said to pursue a shoM of herring?, and to swallow 

 thousands at. a L'ulp. ''(Ill ; it has generally gone under t!ie name of 

 the spermaceti whale, till Mr. 1'enmint made the distinction, bor- 

 rowing its name from the French ; seven d'stiie-tions in this tribe ; 

 description ; the throat of this animal very formidable; with ease it 

 could swallow an ox ; it terrifies the dolphins and porpoises so 

 much, as often to drive them on shore ; it contains two precious 

 drugs, spermaceti and ambergris ; the oil of thi.-* fish is easily con- 

 vertible into spermaceti, by boiling it with a lay of pot-ash, ami 

 hardening it in the manner of soap ; candles are now made of it; 

 the balls of ambergris not round in all fishes of this kind, but chiefly 

 in the oldest and strongest, (j'23, t>24. 



Cagui, or the saki, is the largest monkey of the sagoin kind ; its 

 description, 412. 



< ' i _ : 'rtii. a mountain i:car it. w:s split, by n;i earthquake, 40. 



(,'iiirn, iii what manner they produce their six or seven thousand 

 chickens at a time, 4!K>. 



Ciilttci, the horned Indian raven. .",](!. 



Cntriimtiiin, all animal substances when calcined are the 

 same, Tii-\ 



name given to the young of the hind, or the female of the 

 stag, 260. 



Calf, or hind-calf; the stag called so the first ye.ar, 2(52. 



Callitrix, the green monkey of St. Jago, \>f the ancient conti- 

 nent; its o ill. 



C'ii.nyuni/nnts, the dragonet ; description of this fish, 648. 



Ft*, attended with a deluge of rain ; why, and where, 101. 



Cumliii f . rim!'- of hair of anim&Is about Angora, 247. 



C'nmi'l. a ruminating animal. '.' ">'i ; camel and dromedary not two 

 distinct kinds, only a variety of the same, which has subsisted time 

 immemorial ; the only sensible difference between those two races, 

 they produce with each other, and ihe mixed breed is considered 

 the best ; of the two the dromedary is far the most numerous ; 

 countries where the camel and dromedary are found ; neither can 

 subsist or propagate in the climates towards the north ; Arabia the 

 most adapted to" the support and production of this animal ; tha 

 camel the most temperate of all animals ; it can continue to travel 

 several days without drinking, and is often, six or seven days with- 

 out any sustenance ; its feet formed to travel upon sand, and utter- 

 ly unfit for moist or marshy places ; many vain efforts tried to pro- 

 pagate the camel in Spain ; they have been transported into 

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