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* CORY. 453 COBYMBUS. curator in the oniithological department of the Fiekl Columbian Museum in C'hii'ai^o. His pub- lications inulude Birds of tlic Hdhanui Islands, Birds of Haiti and (S'kh Domingo, ('ataloijue of West Indian Birds and The Birds of the West Indies. CORY, William Johnson (182302). An Englisli poet, son of Charles Johnson, of Torring- ton, Devonshire; his mother was a grandnieee of Sir Joshua Reynolds. He was educated at liton, and at King's College, Cambridge ; was graduated B.A. in 1S45, and in the same year became fellow of his college. He was at once appointed assistant master of Eton, where he won great distinction as a tutor. In 1872 he re- tired from Eton and changed his name to Cory. His subsequent home was Hampstead. where he died, .June 11, 1892. Cory is mainly known for a volume of verse entitled lonica (1858), con- taining "Mimnermus in Church" and other poems of great tenderness and beaut}-. The volume was reissued, with additions, in 1891. He is also author of an agreeable Guide to Modern English History (1880-82), and of several graceful Latin lyrics in Lueretilis, a treatise on writing Latin verse (1S71). After his death appeared his Lett'-rs and Journals (O.xford. 1897). CORYAT, kor'yat, or CORYATE, Thomas (1577-11)171. An English traveler and author, born at Odcombe and educated at Oxford. He made an extensive tour of Europe, traveling mostly on foot, and published his experiences in a volume entitled Cori/at's Crudities (1611). It was the first manual of Continental travel, and was illustrated with engravings. Coryat made other voyages through Greece, Asia Minor, North Africa, and India, where he died. CORYBANTES, kor'i-ban'tez {Gk.KopvjJavrer, Kori/hontes) . Mythical beings, attendant upon the Phrygian Cybele. as the Curetes belong to the Cretan cult of Zeus and Rhea. Unlike the Curetes, with whom they were sometimes con- fused, the Corybantes were not l>elieved to dance in armor, but rather to perform wild and orgi- astic dances which frequently ended in ecstasy. The name does not properly denote priests or human beings at all : but, as the priests of Cybele imitated these dances, like modern Dervishes, the name is sometimes extended to them. CORYCIA, ko-rish'i-a (Lat., from Gk. Kw/iv- Kla, Korykia). The mother of Lycoris, by Ai>ollo. She was a nymph, whose name is pre- served in the Corvcian Cave on Jlount Parnassus, and in the appellation Corycides applied to the nymphs of the cave and to the muses. CORYD'ALIS. See Fumariace.e. CORYDALIS (Xeo-Lat.. from Ok. Kopv6aU.!c, Icnnidiillis, KopvMn:, korydos. crested lark, from K6pv(, korys, helmet) or DoBSO.v. A genus of large, net-veined insects (true Xeuroptera ). rep- resenting the family Sialid;T>,and peculiar to Amer- ica, where its larva, used for bait luider the names 'crawler,' 'dobson,' 'hell devil,' and many others, is the largest of our aquatic insects. The single species (Corydalis cormita), often called 'hell- grammite,' is brownish-grcpn in color, about two inches in length, and expands its four nearly equal wings fully six inches. "In the female the jaws are very large, flat, and toothed at the ex- tremity, but in the male they are remarkably long and slender, not toothed, and the sharp tips crossing each other: their only use is evidently for seizing the soft, somewhat yielding body of the female during the act of iiairing; hence, dur- ing its short life the male, at least, takes no food." The female lays her eggs in midsummer, in white, clialky masses almost an inch wide, on tree-leaves, rocks, timbers, etc., overhanging water, into >vhich the young drop as soon as hatched. These sink to the bottom and grow rapidly into large, slate-gray, tough, predatory larva', which hide under stones, etc., in the rajjid streams where they most abound, clinging firmly to some support with their anal hooks, wliih' they seize in their jaws such living creatures as come within their reach. They remain in the water two years and eleven months, then creep out upon land, where they wander about at night for a few days, then pupate in some retreat and speedily emerge as adidts. The larvie (dobsons) are regarded as the most satisfactory bait known for still-fishing, and are captured with nets, after overturning stones, etc., and frightening them out into the open water. For the many interest- ing peculiarities of the structure ami economy of this and other species of the SialidiB (called 'adder-flies' in England), consult: Howard, The Insect Book (New York, 1901); Packard, Stan- dard Natural History, vol. ii. (Boston, 1884) ; Miall. The Natural History of Aquatic Insects (London, 1895). COR'YDON. A town and the county-seat of Harrison County, Ind., 108 miles south of Indian- apolis, on Indian Creek and on the Louisville, New Albany and Corydon Railroad (Map: In- diana, C 4). It is known as a summer resort, one of its attractions being a sulphur spring. Cor- ydon was the ca|>ital of the Territory of Indiana from 1813 to 181(j, and of the State of Indiana from 1816 to 1825, when the seat of government was removed to Indianapolis. The Constitutional Convention of 1816 met here. In 1863 the town was the scene of a sharp skirmish between a small force of State militia and a superior force of Confederate raiders under John Morgan. Popu- lation, in 1890. 880; in 1900, 1610. CORYDON". A town and the county-seat of Wayne County, Iowa, 85 miles south by east of Des Moines, on the Keokuk and Western Rail- road. The electric-light plant is under municipal control. Population, in 1890, 962; in 1900, 1477. CORYDON. (1) A shepherd in the Seventh Eclogue of "ergil, and in the Idi/ls of Theoc- ritus, and hence a name conventionally used in literature to designate a country swain, as in Spenser's Faerie Queene and Colin Clout. (2) A shoemaker in Scott's Cot(nt Robert of Paris. (3) A musical counti-jnnan in Walton's Corn- pleat Angler, who fraternizes with Piscator. COR'YLtrS. See Hazelnut. COR'YMB (from Lat. corymbus, from Gk. Kopvfijiof, korynibos, cluster, from Kbpv^, korys, helmet). A flat-topped flower-cluster, in which the pedicels arise at ditlerent levels upon an elongated axis, and the outermost flowers bloom first. See Inflore.scence. CORYM'BTJS (Lat.. cluster). That mode of dressing the hair which prevailed among the Greek women and which may be seen in ex- amples of the antique, particularly in the statues representing Venus. This arrangement of the hair was also adopted by the Romans. It con-