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"fht cafes of the v/ings of this infed are of a black- 
ilh blue ; the feelers are black ; the head and feet 
are of the feme colour; the breaft is of a reddifli 
brown; and the belly, which is oblong and nar- 
row, is yellow behind. 
CiCINDELA WITH BluEISH CaSES TO THE 
Wings, and a fallow-coloured body. This in- 
■feft feems attached to iliady places, and is nearly 
of the fame fhape with the former. The head, 
breaft, feet, and feelers, are black; the belly, near 
the feet, is of a fallow hue ; the cafes of the wings 
are of a fhining blue, marked with hollow points; 
and the feelers confift of fixjoints. 
CiciNDELA WITH A Green Breast. The 
cafes of the wings of this infeft are of an iron-grey 
colour in front, and of a blueifli black behind; the 
feelers are black ; and the body and breaft are of a 
fine blueifh green. 
The glow-worm is by fome affinned t-o be the 
female of the Cicindela; but with refpeft to this 
alTertion naturalifts are much divided. 
CICLA. A name given by Artedi, and other 
late writers, to a fpecies of fifh called chichle by 
Ariftotle and ^lian, and turdus minor by the ge- 
nerality of the moderns. 
CICONIA. The clafTical name for the ftork. 
CIERGE. The French name of a fea-ftiell of 
the order of voluta. It is of the colour of com- 
mon yellow wax, without any variegations on the 
furface; but, when the rough coat is taken off, it 
exhibits the zones and colours of the onyx. Among 
the virtuoft, it is generally known by the name of 
the onyx-ftiell. 
CIGALE. A French term for the cicada, par- 
ticularly the large fpecies called acheta by the an- 
cients. See Harvest-Fly. 
CIGALON. An appellation given by French 
naturalifts to a fmaller fpecies of the cicada, as 
that of cigale is affixed to the larger. It appears 
that the ancients were unacquainted with two fpe- 
cies of cicada, a great one and a fmaller; the laft 
of which they called tettigonia, and the firft acheta. 
It has been generally imagined that the Cigalon 
of the moderns correfponded with die tettigonia ; 
but Reaumur obferves, that there are in reality 
three kinds of them, a large, a middling, and a 
fmall one; that the large was the acheta of the an- 
cients; that the middle one was their tettigonia; 
and that the Cigalon, which is about the fize of 
the hornet, was wholly unknown to them. 
CIGNE. A nam.e given by the French vir- 
tuofi to a fpecies of voluta. When it appears in it's 
natural coat, it has a rough furface, and is of a yel- 
low colour, much like that of common wax ; whence 
it is called cierge, or the wax-fhell. When the 
external covering is removed, it appears df a very 
beautiful white, and then obtains the name of the 
eigne, or fwan-ftiell. When highly polifned, fo 
as todifcover the internal ftrufture, it appears zoned 
in the manner of the onyx ; and is then called the 
onyx. 
CIMEX. A genus of infefts, the charaflers 
of which are thefe: the head is fmall; the back, 
towards the fhoulders, is broad, and covered with 
a cruftaceous fubftance; the ihoulders are of an an- 
gular ihape; the wings are partly cruftaceous and 
partly membranaceous, and fo formed as to exhibit 
the figure of a crofs where they meet at the middle 
of the back ; and the probofcis is long, bent under 
the belly, and alv/ays lies ftraight, and not in a 
ijpiral form. 
.R;xy divides the Cimiccs into two kinds; thofe 
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of a lliorter, and thofe of a longer and narrower 
ftiape. Of the firft he defcribes eight fpecies, and 
of the latter five. 
CiMEx, Brassy Blue. This infeft is of the 
fize of the large blue fly, but more flat. The up- 
per fui-face of the body is of a beautiful blue colour, 
with a metalline caft; on the breaft there is a 
longitudinal line, which at the lower extremity is 
terminated by one running acrofs ; the extremity 
of the fhield is either red or white ; and on each 
fi.de there is a fpot of the fame colour. The legs 
and feelers are black; and the body, underneath, 
is of a blueifti black. The fpots on the male are 
white, and thole on the female red. 
CiMEx, Henbane. This infed, defcrlbed by 
Linnaeus, is a very beautiful one. The body is 
very narrow; the head is black, except on the 
middle, where it is of a bright red; the breaft is 
black at it's forward extremity, but red in every 
other part, except two angular fpots behind. The 
external wings are red, but marked with a black 
fpot in the middle of each; fo that, when clofed, 
two of thefe fpots appear on the back. The Ihield 
is black, with a red extremity ; and the body under 
it is black ; but in other paifs it is red, except near 
the vent. The wings are brown and ftreaked; the 
feelers and legs are black; and the trunk andfnour 
confift' of four joints. 
CIMICIFORMIS MUSCA. A name given 
by Ray to a fpecies of beautiful infedls, partly of 
the fly, and partly of the cimex kind. They are 
found under hedges, and in dry places. Of thefe 
creatures the above ingenious naturalift enumerates 
eleven fpecies. 
CIN^DUS. A filh common in the Archi- 
pelago, near the rocks and fhores ; fuppofed to be 
of the fame fpecies with the alpheftes, and of the 
turdus kind, except in having it's back-fin prickly 
the whole length. It is entirely of a yellowifh hue, 
blended and variegated with an admixture of pur- 
ple; it's fcales are rounded and indented; and it's 
teeth are very ftrong and firm, and difpofed in a 
double row in each jaw. 
CINCLUS. A fpecies of the tringa; a nam.e 
fometimes given to the bird called in Englifh the 
greater reed-fparrow ; aiid, by the generality of au- 
thors, junco. 
Cinclus is alfo the name of a Ipecies of ftumus, 
or ftarling. 
CINNAMOLOGUS. ^ An appellation given 
by the ancients to a bird which they imagined built 
it's neft in the cinnamon-tree, or on roCks and pre- 
cipices with the broken branches of that valued 
tree. The idle traditions reipe£ting this bird ren- 
der it impoftible to determine it's real kind; fome 
affirming it to be the phoenix, and others a parti- 
cular fpecies of fowl. 
CIRCERELLUS. A name by which fome 
authors exprefs the ammodytes, or fand-eel. 
CIRCUS. An appellation given by Bellonius, 
and fome others, to the melvus asruginofus, or 
moor-buzzard. 
CIRL. A bird defcribed by Aldrovandus ; and 
called zivolo by tlie Italians, from the fyilable zi, 
zi, which it frequently repeats. It is of the fize of 
a fparrow ; and has a thick biH, with a knob on the 
upper cliap. The breaft and belly are yellowiftT^ 
fprinkled with brown fpots ; and the whole upper- 
part is of a brownifli brick-colour. The male it 
more yellow about the head and neck than the fe- 
male. The Cirl fits chiefly on the grouiid, and 
feeds on the feeds of plants. 
Cirl 
