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menagerie, that -any fresh meat tasting of Lucm 

 Grasshopper suits his needs. The blue-winged -Locusc 

 15 the most frequent victim. 'As soon as the food is 

 introduced into the cage there is an uproar, especially 

 if the Dectici are hungry. They stamp about, and dart 

 forward clumsily, being hampered by their long shanks. 

 Some of: the Locusts are caught at once, but others with 

 desperate boimcb rash to rhe top of the cage, and there 

 hjing -*>n out ol the reach ot the Grasshopper, who is too 

 * 'high, iku they have only postponed 

 hue. KniuT because they are tired, or because 



sev ,'ut t.empted by the green srutf below, they will 

 uxwr <k>v/n, and the Dectici will. IK aft^r them im- 

 mediatejy. 



This Grasshopper, though his intellect is dull, pos- 

 scs^s rht- art of scientinc killing of which we have seen 

 instances elsewhere. He always spears his prey in the 

 neck, and TO make it helpless as quickly as possible, 

 begins by ^ r;^;g the nerves that enable it to move. It 

 is. a very wt** method, for the Locust is hard to kill. 



vcn wlcu liitheaded he goes on hopping. I have 

 sonsje who, though hiilf-eaf^n, kicked out so 

 that they succeeded in 



