128 WOOD NOTES WILD. 



Music in Nature. — Contin. 



Cricket. 



A cricket (Chlorocoelus Tanana) is caged, like a bird, for its song. 



Bates, H. W. : The Naturalist on the River Amazons, pp. 132-134. 



German youths are so fond of cricket music that they "carry their 

 boxes of crickets into their bedrooms at night, and are soothed to sleep 

 with their chirping lullaby." — Jaeger, B. : Life of North Amer. Insects, 

 p. 114. 



And did not a similar custom prevail in ancient Greece ? 



" In the common field-cricket of Europe the male has been observed to 

 place itself, in the evening, at the entrance of its burrow, and stridulate 

 until a female approaches, when the louder notes are succeeded by a more 

 subdued tone, whilst the successful musician caresses with his antennae the 

 mate he has won. Any one who will take the trouble may observe a sim- 

 ilar proceeding in the common house-cricket. The nature and object of 

 this insect music are more uniform than the structure and situation of the 

 instrument by which it is produced." — Bates, H. W. : The Naturalist on 

 the River Amazons, p. 133. 



Ant. 



See Forbes, H. 0. : Sound-producing Ants. {Nature, vol. xxiv., 

 1881, pp. 101-102.) — Peal, S. E. : Sounds made by Ants. {Nature, vol. 

 xxii., 1880, p. 583; vol. xxiv., 1881, p. 485.) 



For other of Nature's musicians, see Baird, S. F., in Ann. Record 

 of Science, 1877, pp. 282, 309. — Francheschini, R. : Musical Insects, 

 5 pp. {Pop. Sci. Mo., \ol. xxxix., Sept., 1891.) — Gardiner, W. : Music 

 of Nature, chap. 14. — Hinrichs, Miss A. : Summer's Natural Orchestra, 

 2 pp. {Pop. Sci. News, vol. xxv., Sept., 1891.) — Landois, H., in Das Aus- 

 land, vol. xliii., 1870, pp. 429, 430. — Die musikalischen Insecten und 

 ihre lustrumente. ( Gartenlaube, 1872, pp. 698, 699.) — Scheie de Vere, 

 M. R. B. : Music in Nature. (Putnam's Maq., n. s. vol. vi., 1870, pp. 

 173-182.) — Unknown tongues, in his Stray leaves from the Book of 

 Nature, p. 241, N. Y., 1856 — Scudder, S. H., in Am. Naturalist, vol. 

 ii., 1868, p. 113. — Sterne, Cams: Das erste Standchen. {Gartenlaube, 

 1875, pp. 787-789.) — Wilson, Dr. A.t Songs without words. {Eclec. 

 Mag., N. s. vol. xxxvi., 1882, pp. 737-745.) 



For Stridulating Crustaceans see Nature, vol. xviii., 1878, pp. 53, 95. 



