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everything all at once or in just one place ; so it is 

 the case that the woods of New Jersey do not know 

 the song of the hermit thrush, but the forest glens be- 

 neath Eagle Cliff and Mount Kinsman, in the Fran- 

 conia Range, N. H., echo his music from June until 

 August. 



But I. must return to our tree crickets. The little 

 (Ecanthus niveus begins his trilling song at sunset 

 and continues it throughout the night. He tunes his 

 fiddle about the end of July, and does not finish his 

 concert until the autumn days grow cold. I under- 

 stand that .the female of this species deposits her eggs 

 in the pithy stems of the raspberry and blackberry 

 vines and thereby causes much trouble for the small- 

 fruit grower. 



Another closely allied species is called the broad- 

 winged climbing cricket ((Ecanthus 

 latipennis). This cricket is 

 larger than the preceding, and 

 differs very slightly in 

 color from it ; it is 

 ivory - white. The 

 elytra that is, the two 



Superior wing COVerS Broad-winged Climbing Cricket. 



are glassy and perfectly 



transparent. It differs from the species (E. niveus 



in having the top of the head and lower half of the 



