IN CAMP. 



At all times of the year, but more 

 especially whilst on shooting or fishing 

 excursions, the shikari will have noticed 

 the presence of the ubiquitous Grass- 

 hopper and Locust. He is perhaps to be 

 seen at his best in India during the rainy 

 season, for in the enervating damp 

 heat when the jungle is at its rankest, 

 numbers of different forms are to be 

 found of all sizes and shapes, with at 

 times queer hoods over their heads and 

 often of the most vivid colouring. 



The young locust and grasshopper 

 usually resembles the parent exactly save 

 that he has no wings ; 

 or they are but slight 

 outgrowths lying on his 

 back, which increase in 

 size with each moult of 

 his skin. Some of the 

 young however differ con- 

 siderably from the parent, 

 the head and the thorax (the part behind 

 the head) being greatly enlarged, and at 

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