September. 1892,] 



AND OOLOGIST. 



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having previously enraged them, so as to 

 cause the poison to exude from the poison 

 sacs, or else they kill them and squeeze the 

 virus into a glass tube. The virus has a 

 local repute as a cure for dropsy, chill and 

 fever and all kinds of insect stings. 



THE CRICKETS' MIDSUMMER NIGHTS 

 SONG. 

 Krick, krick. krick. krick, 

 Isn't it hot! Isn't it hot! 

 Kricket^-krick, krickety-krick, 

 Whether you're well, whether you're sick. 

 Whether you like it or not : 

 Isn't it hot! Isn't it hot! 



Krickv. kricky, kricky, krick ; 

 Krick, krick, krick, krick. 

 No breath of a breeze 

 Bestirring the trees 

 Or blowing on cradle or cot ! 

 Krick\', kricky, kricky, krick. 

 Isn't it hot! Isn't it hot! 



The locusts chirr, the tree toads cheep : 



Too hot to sleep ! Too hot to sleep ! 



We sing it, too, 



The long night through ; 



Now high, now low, 



Now quick, now slow, 



Egad ! Egad ! Egad ! 



Krickv, krickv, krickv, krick; 



Krick, krick, krick, krick. 



Whether you like it or not : 



Isn't it bad ! 



Isn't it sad ! 



Isn't it hot, hot, hot ! 



— JV. D. Elhvafigcr in Nc-m York Sun. 



In writing on the common mouse, John 

 D. Gorman in American Natural His- 

 tory says : 



" One evening, in the month of Decem- 

 ber, as a few officers on board a British 

 man of war, in the harbor of Portsmouth, 1 

 were seated around the fire, one of them 

 began to play a plaintive air on the violin. 

 He had scarcely performed ten minutes 

 when a mouse, apparently frantic, made 

 its appearance in the centre of the floor 

 near the large table which usually stands 

 in the ward-room, the residence of the 

 lieutenants in ships of the line. The 



strange gestures of the little animal strongly 

 excited the attention of the officers, who, 

 with one consent, resolved to suffer it to 

 continue its singular actions unmolested. 

 Its exertions now appeared to be greater 

 every moment. It shook its head, leaped 

 about the table, and exhibited signs of the 

 most ecstatic delight. It was observed 

 that in proportion to the graduation of the 

 tones to the soft point the ecstacy of the 

 animal appeared to be increased, and vice 

 versa. After performing actions which 

 animal so diminutive would at first seem 

 incapable of, the little creature, to the aston- 

 ishment of the delighted spectators, sud- 

 denly ceased to move, fell down and ex- 

 pired, without evincing any signs of pain." 

 — From Bartoii s Medical and Physical 

 Journal. 



E. A. Capen, while on his trip to 

 Wyoming this spring, procured some fine 

 specimens of birds and eggs. 



A TRAMP PELICAN. 



G. K. Hurlburt, the taxidermist, was 

 exhibiting to his friends yesterday a large 

 bird measuring eight feet from tip to tip, 

 which was shot near Dorr, Allegan 

 county. 



The bird is a genuine American pelican. 

 It is larger than the swan, and remarkable 

 for its enormous bill, to the lower edge of 

 which is attached a pouch capable of 

 holding many quarts of water. It is the 

 only instance where a bird of that species 

 has been found so far from the sea. They 

 are very common along the coast of the 

 Mediterranean sea and millions of them 

 inhabit the rock bound coasts of the South 

 sea islands. 



The bird probably wandered from New- 

 foundland along the St. Lawrence river, 

 until it came to the great lakes, and then 

 found its way to the place where it was 

 shot. — Frotn a Grand Rapids paper. 



It is quite evident that the pelican is a 

 new find for some of our Detroit friends ; 

 but it is hardly fair to annoimce him from 

 this part of the country. 



