INSECTS 



loud that the player is not suspected of being one of that 

 band whose mingled notes are heard outside softened by 

 distance and muffled by screens of foliage. 



Out of doors the music of an individual cricket is so 

 elusive that even when you think you have located the ex- 



FiG. 37. The snowy tree cricket, Oecanthus niveus 



The upper figures, males, the one on the right with fore wings 



raised vertically in attitude of singing; below, a female, with 



narrow wings folded close against the body 



act bush or vine from which it comes the notes seem to 

 shift and dodge. Surely, you think, the player must be 

 under that leaf; but when you approach your ear to it, the 

 sound as certainly comes from another over yonder; but 

 here you are equally convinced that it comes from still 



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