MEADOW SINGERS. 



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During his singing his wings are elevated at a 

 considerable angle from the body. 



Still another meadow singer is the cone-headed 

 grasshopper (Conocephalus ensiger). This is the com- 

 monest species east of the Rocky Mountains, and the 

 most familiar bright, light- 

 green insect of the culti- 

 vated field, as well as 

 the salt marshes 

 near the seashore. 

 Rarely he is a 

 brownish straw 

 color, but in 

 any case his 

 narrow, point- 

 ed forehead 

 is a sufficient 

 proof of his 



identity ; he is, besides, a very long, slender grass- 

 hopper, with extremely long fine feelers and a sharp, 

 rasping voice, quite unlike that of any of the other 

 meadow musicians. His note is an emphatic, sud- 

 denly loud s-szip, s-szip, s-szip, s-szip, continuous, 

 rapid, and penetrating beyond description. In fact, 



Coiie-lieuded Grasshopper. 



