. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. MEADOW SIN^GERS. 103. scraping or rubbing his legs against his hard-shell wing covers ; he is, in fact, a veritable fiddler in the grand orchestra of the meadow. One musician does not count for much in the noontime sym phony of the singing wings, but when two #|^ hundred thousand bowstrings are in full swing there can be no doubt about '"'''' ' who supphes the orchestra with its first violins ! Although the lo- cust's music is but an obligato ac- companiment to the high-pitched, ringing voices o
. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. MEADOW SIN^GERS. 103. scraping or rubbing his legs against his hard-shell wing covers ; he is, in fact, a veritable fiddler in the grand orchestra of the meadow. One musician does not count for much in the noontime sym phony of the singing wings, but when two #|^ hundred thousand bowstrings are in full swing there can be no doubt about '"'''' ' who supphes the orchestra with its first violins ! Although the lo- cust's music is but an obligato ac- companiment to the high-pitched, ringing voices of the soloists, it soothes the ear with a drowsy x, Left wing of (K hum, which is the very embodi- ment of midsummer peace and '' audible ; A rather large locust {Tri- tnerotropis verrucidata) is quite common on the intervales of the White Mountain district. This creature flies like a bird, and snaps his wings at will during his devi- ous flight. He skims along with a sudden Mack, Mack, Much, klacJc, and gives a dip at each " klack," much in the same fashion that the yellowbird utters its joyous chirrup during its undulating flight through the twilight sky. veus, showing the portion from A to B used for singing. Z, Left wing of Orche- limum, showin;:^ the vein in black at C used for singing. Both are copied from cuts found in several publications —neither are true to nature; compare with tlie succeeding draw- ing of niveus wing^ and the wing on draw- ing of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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