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interruption, and somewhat resembling the cry of the owl or the 

 goat- sucker. 



The impregnated female lays her eggs, to the number of from 



Fig. 306. The nest of the Mole Cricket (Gryilo-talpa vu'garis). 



two to three hundred, in the interior of a sort of chamber scooped 

 out in soil stiff enough to resist the action of rain. The hatching 

 takes place at the end of a month. 



