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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