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are pointed, and very near the head; and the tail 
is forked. Thefe fifh are found in great abundance 
near the Caribbee Iflands. Their flefh is exceed- 
ingly good, and even preferable to our trout. 
CARAPO. An American frefli-water fifh, of 
which there are two fpecies. The firft has a long 
thin body, fhaped like the blade of a knife; the 
back is thick; the belly is thin and narrow; the 
tail is pointed; the head is flat and pointed; and 
the lower-jaw extends farther than the upper. 
The mouth is very narrov/; the under-jaw is fur- 
nifhed with very fmall fharp teeth, but tliere are 
none in the upper; the eyes are very fmall; and the 
body is covered with fcales. The colour is brown, 
with a faint admixture of red ; the back and head 
are fomewhat blackifh ; and a duflcy line runs 
all along the middle of the fides, under which the 
filh is fpeckled with black fpots, each of the bignefs 
of a muftard-feed. The ufual fize of this fifli Is 
about one foot in length, and two inches in breadch. 
The other fpecies differs very little from the for- 
mer, except in being narrower in proportion to it's 
kngth,anddeflituteof fpots ; and both are reckoned 
proper for food. 
CARAPOPEBA. A fmaW fpecies of Brazilian 
iizard, fuppofed to be of a poilbnous nature. The 
body is of a liver-colour, marked with feveral white 
fpots ; the tail is variegated with white and yellow; 
and the eyes are remarkably bright and vivid. 
CARASSIUS. A genus of leather-mouthed 
fifhes of the carp or bream kind, of which there are 
three fpecies. It is a fmall frefli-water fifli, about 
four or five inches long, with a flatted body, and a 
prominent back. It very much refembles the bream 
in it's fhape, but is fomewhat thicker. It is of a 
pale yellow colour, but that of the belly is fome- 
what deeper than the reft of the body. The mouth 
is fmall and round; and the eyes are alfo fliiall, and 
-funk in their orbits. 
CARASSOW. An American bird, called by 
fome the pheafant of that continent; by the Creoles, 
the mountain-bird; and, by others, the lefTer wild 
turkey. The head and neck are black, refembling 
velvet; and there is a high creft of ruffled black 
feathers, ot a femicircular form, with a white ftreak 
running through the middle, and parallel to the 
edges, and which the bird can either eredl or de- 
prefs at pleafure. The reft of the body, except the 
lower part of the cock, is black; and that of the 
hen is of a dufky brown. The tail is alio black, 
except four white bars which run acrofs it, near the 
extremity. The bill is thick in the upper-jaw, 
where there is a round excrefcence as big as a ha- 
zel-nut. The eyes are black ; the legs are pretty 
long ; and the fize of the body is not much lefs than 
that of a common turkey. The CarafTow is eafily 
tamed ; and it's flefh is efteemed excellent food. 
CARAUNA. A fmall Brazilian fifti, in many 
refpefts approaching to the turdus kind. It's co- 
lour is a fine bright red, entirely covered with fmall 
black macule. 
CARCAJOU. An animal of the feline tribe, 
about the fize of a badger ; having a tail fo very 
long, that it will wrap feveral times round it's body. 
This creature, which is of a reddifli brown colour, 
is a formidable enemy to rein-deer, waiting whole 
v/eeks at a time for it's prey, hid in the branches 
of fome fpreading tree; and, while the wild rein- 
deer paiTes underneath, it inftantly drops down on 
it, and fixes it's teeth and claws in it's neck, exaftly 
behind the horns. In vain does the wounded ani- 
mal then attem.pt to fly; the murderer ftill main- 
tains it's former poutiorl ; and though it often lofes 
a part of it's flcin and fiefh by being rubbed againfl: 
the trees, it never quits it's hold till it's prey drops 
down through fatigue and lofs of blood. The deer 
has but one method of efcape, which is by iurnp-* 
ing into the water, an clement to which the Carca- 
jou has a rooted averfion. 
CARCARI AS CANIS. A fpecies of fhark. 
CARDANES. A fmall infeft refembling the 
beetle, very foft to the touch, and emitting a fra- 
grant fmell. It is of a blackifli colour ; and is very 
fwift in it's motions, having two fhort wings which 
do not nearly reach the tail. It is very remarka- 
ble, that the tail of this creature is of the fame fliape 
with the head ; fo that, when at reft, it appears as 
if furniflied with tvv^o heads. 
CARDINAL. A beautiful American bird, 
which abides in it's neft throughout the winter, 
there fubfifting on fuch provifions as it had col- 
lefted during the fumimer, fomerimes amounting 
to the quantity of a Paris buftiel, which are art- 
fully depofited, and covered firft with leaves, and 
then with fmall branches. Two fpecies of this bird 
have been noticed by naturalifts, • 
Cardinal, Crested. This bird h about the 
fize of a grofbeak. The head is adorned with an- 
upriglit creft, of a crimfbn-colour ; and the cheeks 
and lower part of the neck are likewife red. The 
back and wings are cinereous; the breaft and belly 
are white ; the tail is long ; the middle feathers are 
cinereous, and the exterior dufky j and the legs are 
of a flefh-colour. This beautiful creature is a na- 
tive of the Brazils, and was firft defcribed by Buf- 
fbn. 
Cardinal, Dominican. This bird is of a 
moderate fize. The upper mandible is dufky, or 
horn-coloured, and the lower whitifh. The eyes 
are black, and theirides hazel ; and the whole head is 
of a beautiful red or fcarlet colour, which reaches 
down the fore-part of the neck and throat as far as 
the breaft, and terminates in a point. The upper- 
fide of the neck, the back, wings, and tail, are 
blackifh. The quills which fall next to the back 
are bordered with white, as well as the covert-fea- 
thers next above them; the leffer covert-feathers 
of the wings and back have a fmall admixture or 
grey, by which they appear as if fringed ; the tail- 
feathers are edged with v/hite; and the fides of the 
neck, the breaft, and the entire under -fide as far as 
the tail, are purely white. It has four toes, three 
ftanding forward, and one backward, but all of a 
brown-colour. The Domiinican Cardinal is a na- 
tive of the Brazils, and has been defcribed by Marc- 
grave under the name of the guiratirica. 
CARDINALITIUS. A name given by fome 
naturalifts to the cocothrauftes Indica criftata, com- 
monly called the Virginian nightingale. 
CARDIUM. A genus of worms in the Lin- 
nEean fyft'em, belonging to the order of teftacea. 
CARDUEIJS . A well-known bird, called in 
Englifli the gold-finch, and by anc'ent naturalifts 
cliryfomitres and acanthis ; the firft from it's yellow 
head, and the laft from it's feeding among thiftles. 
CARETTA. See Tortoise. 
CARIAM A. A Brazilian bird of the fize of a 
heron ; and, like that bird, frequenting watery places . 
It makes aloud noife like the turkey, and is a fpe- 
cies of the palamadea. It's flefh is extremely de- 
licious 
CARIBOU. An American animal of die ftag 
kind, chiefly found about Hudfon's Bay, though 
it has been frequently feen in Canada. It is not 
quite 
