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with the musician himself. This is because he almost invariably 

 chooses the tops of the tallest trees for his stage and seldom descends 

 from it. His lofty platform, moreover, is also his studiq, his home, 



Fig. 11. — The katydid in various attitudes. . 

 A, usual position of male while singing. B, attitude while running rapidly on a 

 smooth surface. C, preparing to leap from a vertical surface. D, a male seen from 

 above. E, a female showing the wide flat ovipositor 



and his world, and the reporter who would have a personal interview 

 must be efficient in tree climbing. Occasionally, though, it happens 

 that a singer may be located in a smaller tree where access to him 

 is easier or from which he may be dislodged by shaking. The writer 



