96 FAMILIAR FEATURES OF THE ROADSIDE. 



A far less musical singer than the tree cricket 

 lives in the meadow Brasses, and favors us in broadest 



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daylight in the w^arm days of 

 July with his gip, gip, gip, 

 gip-zee-e-e-e-e-e-e ! This is 

 the common meadow grass- 

 hopper Orchelimum vulgare. 

 He is green, and he has long 

 antennae, so he must not be 

 confused with the short, 

 stumpy-feelered, red-legged 



locust, who is wrongly called a grasshopper. The 

 Orchelimum is a delicately modeled creature, about 

 an inch long, with transparent wings through which 

 one may readily see the green body. His legs are 

 slender, and at the shoulder end of each wing is the 

 hard, glassy formation which, when the wing is rapidly 

 vibrated, rubs on the concave expansion of the other 

 wing and causes the sharp, zigging sound. The locust 



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Grasshopper. 



Gip. gip. gip. gip. zee-e 



(grasshopper) in flying, in a very different way, pro- 

 duces a clapping or snapping sound with his wings.* 



* See Trimerotropis verruculata, page 103. 



