INDEX. 



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Corn-crake, or Und.rail, account of 

 the hird, iii. :ibS n. 



Ci>rripa, a bird of tlie crane kind, its 

 long legs, iii. 342. 



CorruptioDof dead bodies, how caused, 

 i.432; how prevented, ih. 



Co rvorant, account of the, iii. 375 n. : see 

 Cormorant. 



Coryphoena, or Razor fish, noticed, iii. 

 533- 



Citnpaxi, volcano of, i. 68 n. 76, 77. 



Coitus, or Bullhead, a prickly tinned 



^ fish, iii. 531. 



Couando, distingTiished from the porcu- 

 pine, ii. 358. 



Cougar, or Red Tiger of America, des- 

 cribed, ii. 166 ; formidable nature, 

 ib. ; its habits, 16S, 169 ; how encoun- 

 tered, 169; combats with the croco. 

 dile, 170; where found, 168, 170; 

 flesh of the, 171. 



Coulterneb, the Puffin, why so called, 

 iii. 397, 398. 



Cow kind, animals of the, i. 520; char- 

 acteristics, ib. n; usifnlness, 5il ; 

 food, 521, 522 ; teeth, 5>i ; age, how 

 known, ib. ; horns, 523 and u.; Eng- 

 lish breed of the cow, how improv- 

 ed, 523 ; how affected by its pasture, 

 524 ; differences in its size, 525 ; 

 form, 526; originally of a common 

 stock, 527 ; different races of the, 

 523 n. 525 n. 529 ; the Tartar and 

 Turkish breed described, 525 n. ; 

 Egyptian, ib. ; Caflre, ib. ; Danish, 



526 n. ; British breeds described, 

 long-horned, ib. ; short-horned, ib. ; 

 middle-horned, ib. ; polled breeds, 



527 n. ; Highland, ib. ; Fifeshire, ib. ; 

 Welsh, ib.; Afderny,ib. ; theFrench, 

 ib. ; Chine-e, 628 n. ; Abyssinian, &c. 

 ib. ; Bornou race, ib. 529 n. ; in Ice- 

 land, 531 ; other countries, ib. ; that 

 with the hump, ib. (see Bison) ; how 

 to distinguish the classes of this kind, 

 550 ; an animal uniting the charac- 

 ters of the hog and, 551. 



Crab, the resemblance of its habits to 

 those of the lobster, iv. 2, 3 ; where 

 found, 10 ; the, described, ib ; account 

 of the violet land-crab, ib. ; strength 

 of its claw, 1 1 ; orderly society and 

 march, 12, 13; casting of the spawn, 

 13 ; return, 14 ; casting of the shell, 

 ib. ; in tlie mountains impregnable, 

 ib. 15; uses of, 15; the sand crab 

 described, 11 n. ; the red-mottled, ib.; 

 the rough-shelled, ib. ; red-clawed, 

 ih. ; the pea, ib. ; thecoramon. 12 n. ; 

 the velvet, ib. ; the horrid, ib. ; tlie 

 spider, ib. ; the land crabs of Jamaica, 

 15 n. ; their abundance, ib. ; sold by 

 the Negroes, 16 n. ; eaten by swine, 

 ib. ; th(! black and white varieties 

 there, ib. ; account of an extraordi. 

 nary production oV, in 1811, 17 n. ; 

 the soldier crab described, 17—19. 



Crab-eaters, a kind of herons, iii. 32t5 

 n. 



Crabs-eyes, improperly so called, what 

 they are, iv. 6. 



Crane kind, birds of the, iii. 301 ; their 

 distinctive qualities, ib. ; logs, 302; 

 bill, ib. ; not domesticated and why, 

 ib. 303 ; food, ib. ; tribes, ib ; smaller 

 birds of the, distinguished, 342 ; enii 

 merated; 343 ; their properties, S14- 

 347 ; food, 347—352 ; adaptations, 352, 

 353 ; — climate, 353, migrations, ib. 

 354; residents, ih. ; nestling, 3.5,5, 

 356 ; method of taking, 357. 



Crane, real dimeusions of the, iii. 

 304 ; fables concerning the, and their 

 origin, ib. 305 ; countries of the, ib. ; 

 miarations, ib. ; scarcely ever seen 

 M'ith us, and the reasons why, 306 

 and n. ; favourite climate of the, ib. ; 

 depredations, ib. 30,5, 308; aerial jour- 

 neys, 307 ; loud cry and its use, ib. ; 

 the wind-pipe, ib. ; food, 308 n. ; con- 

 tests with the falcon, ib. ; tamed, 

 309; affection for man, ib. and n. ; 

 popular respect for the, 309 ; the 

 genus characterised, 310 n ; Balearic, 

 doubts concerning the, 316—318 ; its 

 remarkable appearance, 318; its 

 country, 319 ; habitudes, ib. ; gi. 

 gantic, a large species of the stork. 

 g:enus, described, 319 n. ; its country, 

 lb. ; food, ib. ; why venerated by 

 the Indians, ib. ; habitudes, 320 n. ; 

 Numidian, the Demoiselle, 321, 322. 



Cray or Craw fish, river, iv. 9 ; the 

 species described, ib. n, ; flesh, ib. ; 

 where found in abundance, ib. ; how 

 taken, ib. 



Creepers, their analogy to wood-peck, 

 ers, iii. 186 n. 



Crests or fleshy carbuncles on the beak 

 of the condor, iii. 64, 65 n. 



Cricetus, or German Rat, the, describ. 

 ed, ii. 338 ; its pouches, ib. 339 ; vora- 

 city, ib. ; construction of its abode 

 340, 341 ; its stores, 341 ; propaga 

 tion, ib.; fur, ib. 



Crick, a kind of parrot, iii. 203 n. 



Cricket, the two kinds of, iv. 269 ; the 

 field, 270 and n.; its abode de. 

 scribed, habitudes by White, ib. ; 

 sound, 271 n. ; the house cricket, its 

 sound, 270 ; residence and habitudes, 

 271 ; how it may be taken, ib. ; its 

 voracity, ib. ; the sound of the, how 

 regarded by different persons, 272; 

 how expelled from a house, ib. ; 

 Sonnets of Keats and Leigh Hunt on 

 the, and grasshopper, 2G0 ; the mole 

 cricket described. 272 ; why detested 

 by gardeners, ib. 273; eggs, and 

 young, 273. 



Croaking of the biill-frog described, iv 

 91, 95 u. ; of the ciinimou frog, 98; 

 iuiicativo of wet weather, ib. 



Croiodde, its resorts, iv. 115; where 



