128 WOOD NOTES WILD. 



Music IN NATURE. Contin. 



CRICKET. 



A cricket (Chlorocoelus Tanana) is caged, like a bird, for its song. 

 Bates, H. W. : The Naturalist on the River Amazons, pp. 132-134. 



German youths are so fond of cricket music that they u carry their 

 boxes of crickets into their bedrooms at night, and are soothed to sleep 

 with their chirping lullaby." Jaeger, B. : Life of North Amer. Insects, 

 p. Ill 



And did not a similar custom prevail in ancient Greece ? 



" In the common field-cricket of Europe the male has been observed to 

 place itself, in the evening, at the entrance of its burrow, and stridulate 

 until a female approaches, when the louder notes are succeeded by a more 

 subdued tone, whilst the successful musician caresses with his antennae the 

 mate he has won. Any one who will take the trouble may observe a sim- 

 ilar proceeding in the common house-cricket. The nature and object of 

 this insect music are more uniform than the structure and situation of the 

 instrument by which it is produced." Bates, H. W. : The Naturalist on 

 the River Amazons, p. 133. 



ANT. 



See Forbes, H. O. r Sound-producing Ants. (Nature, vol. xxiv., 

 1881, pp. 101-102.) Peal, S. E. : Sounds made by Ants. (Nature, vol. 

 xxii., 1880, p. 583; vol. xxiv., 1881, p. 485.) 



For other of Nature's musicians, see Baird, S. F., in Ann. Record 

 of Science, 1877, pp. 282, 309. Francheschini, R. : Musical Insects, 

 5 pp. (Pop. Sci. Mo., vol. xxxix., Sept., 1891.) Gardiner, W. : Music 

 of Nature, chap. 14. Hinrichs, Miss A. : Summer's Natural Orchestra, 

 2 pp. ( Pop. Sci. News, vol. xxv., Sept., 1 891 . ) Landois, H., in Das Aus- 

 land, vol. xliii., 1870, pp. 429, 430. Die musikalischen Insecten und 

 ihre Instrumente. ( Gartenlaube, 1872, pp. 698, 699.) Schele de Vere, 

 M. R. B. : Music in Nature. (Putnam's Mag., N. s. vol. vi., 1870, pp. 

 173-182.) Unknown tongues, in his Stray leaves from the Book of 

 Nature, p. 241, N. Y., 1856. Scudder, S. H., in Am. Naturalist, vol. 

 ii., 1868, p. 113. Sterne, Cams: Das erste Standchen. (Gartenlaube, 

 1875, pp. 787-789.) Wilson, Dr. A.: Songs without words. (Eclec. 

 Mag., N. s. vol. xxxvi., 1882, pp. 737-745.) 



For Stridulating Crustaceans see Nature, vol. xviii., 1878, pp. 53, 95. 



