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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 vulgaris). 
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. 

