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CAGIT. The name of a fpecies of parrot very 
common in the woods of the Philippine Wands. 
It is of a middling fize, and entirely of a beautiful 
green colour. 
C AGUI . A Brazilian monkey ; of which there 
are two fpecies, a greater and a leffer* 
The greater Cagui, to which the name of pongi 
is given by the inhabitants of Congo, is a large 
animal, with afh-coloured hair mixed with a little 
black. The face is roundilhj and fomewhat re- 
fembles that of a lion; the ears are round, black, 
and deftitute of hair; the eyes and mouth are like- 
wife black; and the tail, which is near a foot and 
a half long, is covered widi reddifh hair. 
Cagui, Lesser. This tender little animal has 
the face of a lion: the body is no more than fix 
inches long, and the tail ten ; the head is about the 
fize of an apple; the mouth is furnilhed with fmall 
lharp teeth ; the ears are roundifh, and encircled 
with fine linooth white hair ; the tail is furrounded 
with white and duflcy rings ; and, except on the 
jface, v/hich is white, the creature has very little 
hair, and appears all over the body of a dark flelh- 
colour. The eyes are of a reddifh hazel hue, with 
black pupils ; and the general outlines of it's face 
refemble thofe of the monkey tribe. The paws are 
covered with fhort hair; and tliere are five toes on 
each foot, like thofe of a fquirrel, with pointed 
claws, except on the two exterior toes of the hind- 
feet, which have flat nails. 
This animal has a very fnrill voice, is extremely 
a6tive and fporti ve, and incapable of enduring a cold 
climate. It feeds on greens, fruit, infeds, fnails, 
and fmall fifh. 
The young, which are very ugly at firft, cling 
clofe to the bread of the dam. When they grow 
a little bigger, they hang on her back, or fnoul- 
ders, till flie is weary, and then flie finds means to 
diflodge them; on which the male immediately 
takes them under his prote6lion till the female re- 
covers. 
CAHLLO. A name given by fome authors 
to the lupus marinus, orwolf-fifli. 
CAIRINA. An appellation by v/hich feveral 
naturalifi:s diftinguifli the Mufcovy duck. 
CAITAIA. A long-haired Brazilian monkey 
of a yellowifh white colour. The liead is round- 
ifh; the nofe is fmall and flat; and the tail is held 
arch- ways. It fmells of mufk ; and, if treated with 
feverity, immediately fets up a loud cry, being ex- 
tremely irafcible. The Caitaia feems to be the 
fame animal defcribed by Clufius, as having been 
brought from Fernambuco, in Brazil ; for iie tells 
us that the body is large, with longfhaggy hair of 
a flefh-colour, and that it fmells very fragrantly of 
mufk. There is another fpecies of a deeper yellow 
colour, which alfo fmells of that fubftance, 
CALANDRA. A bird which feems to belong 
to the lark family, though it differs from that vocal 
clafs of birds in feveral particulars. The bill is of 
a yellowifh brown colour, and duflcy along the top 
of the upper mandible ; and the eyes are of a dark 
colour. From the fuperior part of the bill, through 
the eye, runs a black duflcy line, above and beneath 
which there are interftices of a whitifh colour. On 
the fides of the head below the eyes there are alio 
fome broken blackifli lines; and at the beginning 
of the bread it has a remarkable black collar. 
The throat and fore part of the neck are whitifli, 
mixed with light brown ; the top of the head, the 
upper fide of the neck, the back, wings, and tail, 
are of a reddifh brov/n, the middle part of the fea- 
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tliers being black. The breafl, below the collar; 
is of a light brown, fpotted with a darker fhade of 
the fame colour; the belly, thighs, and covert- fea- 
thers under the tail, are white; the legs, toes, and 
claws, are of a flefh-colour; the hinder claws are 
pretty firong, as in larks ; and the infides of the 
wings, as well as the under-fide of the tail, incline 
to afh-colour. This bird is faid to be a native of 
Carolina. 
CALANDRE. A name given by French na- 
turalifts to a fpecies of inff6t of the fcharabseus 
clafs, extremely deflruftive in granaries. The fe- 
male lays a confiderable number of eggs ; and the 
increafe of thefe creatures would be very great, had 
not Nature ordained that, while they are in the egg, 
and even in the worm-flate, they fliould be liable to 
the depredations of mites, which deftroy far the great- 
eft number of them before they arrive at matu- 
rity. 
CALANGAY. A name given by the natives 
of the Pliilippine Iflands to a fpecies of beautiful 
white parrot, adorned with a creft of the fame co- 
lour. It is about the fize of a pigeon ; is eafilv 
tamed and taught to fpeak ; and is ibmetimies called 
the catatua and abacay. 
CALAO. An oriental bird defcribed by Son- 
nerar, apparently of the toucan kind, and about the 
fize of an European crow. The bill is extremely 
long, bent into an arch reprcfenting a fcythe, den- 
tated at it's edges both above and below, and ter- 
minating in a fharp point: it is furrowed acrofs, 
both above and below, for upwards of two-thirds 
of it's length; the convexity of thefe furrows is 
brown, and their interftices are yellow. The reft 
of the bill is fmooth, and of a brown colour ; and 
at it's bafe rifes an excrefcence, of the fame fub- 
ftance with the bill itfelf, which extends about one 
half of it's length. The eyes are furrounded with 
a brown membrane, entirely naked ; but on the eye- 
lids grows a circle of rough fhort hair, like the hu- 
man" beard. The irides are v/hitifh ; the head, 
neck, back, and wings, of the male, are black, with 
a greenifh cafl, changing, according as it is viev/- 
ed, to blue. The top of the breaft is of a bright 
reddifli brown colour; the belly, legs, and vent, are 
of a deep reddifh brown; the tail confifts of ten 
feathers, of a reddifli yellow, upwards of two-thirds 
of their length terminating in a black band; and 
the feet, which are of a leaden hue, confift of four 
claws each. 
CALARMARY, or SLEEVE-FISH, This 
creature fomewhat refembles the cuttle-fifh; but it 
has an oblong griftly body, covered with two fkins ; 
in wliich refpe6t, as well as in having fofter flefli, ic 
differs from the cuttle-fifTi. However, it has ten 
legs; the four middlemofl of which are pyramidal, 
and have rough bony tubercles on their infides: on 
each fide of thefe there is another leg, very long 
and thick at the extremity, covered with a kind 
of teftudinous tubercles, which the two following 
pair have through their whole length, on their in- 
fides. On the belly tliere are two receptacles, full 
of a very black fluid, which might anfwer the or- 
dinary purpofes of ink. 
CALENDULA. A fpecies of the motacilla, 
in the order of pafTeres; a bird found in Pennlyl - 
vania. 
CALF. The young of the cow kind; an ani- 
mal too well knov/n to require a particular defcrip- 
tion. See Cow. 
Calf, Sea. See Sea-Calf. 
CALLARIAS. A name given by fome natu- 
ral ifls 
