128 WOOD NOTES WILD. 
Music i1wNature. — Contin. 
CRICKET. 
A cricket (Chlorocoelus Tanana) is eaged, 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 “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. 114, 
And did not a similar custom prevail in ancient Greece ? 
“Tn 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 antenne 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.: 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, ss A.; Summer’s Natural Orchestra, 
2pp. (Pop. Sci. News, vol. xxv., Sept., 1891.) — Landois, H., in Das Aus- 
land, vol. xliii., 1870, pp. 429, 480. — Die musikalischen Insecten und 
ihre Instrumente. (Gartenlaube, 1872, pp. 698, 699.) —Schele de Vere, 
M. R. B.: Music in Nature. (Putnam’s Mag., n. 8. vol. vi., 1870, pp. 
178-182.) — 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. 118. — Sterne, Carus: Das erste Stindchen. (Gartenlaube, 
1875, pp. 787-789.) — Wilson, Dr. A.: Songs without words. (Zclec. 
Mag., x. 8. vol. xxxvi., 1882, pp. 737-745.) 
For Stridulating Crustaceans see Nature, vol. xviii., 1878, pp. 53, 95. 
