. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. 96 FAMILIAR FEATURES OF THE ROADSIDE. A far less musical singer than the tree cricket lives in the meadow grasses, and favors us in broadest daylight in the warm days of July with his ^i/?, gip, gip,. gip-see-e-e-e-e-e-e I This is Meadow Griisshopper. the common meadow grass- hopper Orcheli'iiium vulgare. He is green, and he has long antennae, so he must not be confused with the short, stumpy-feelered, red-legged locust, who is wrongly called a grasshopper. The 0rchellmum is a delicately modeled crea
. Familiar features of the roadside; the flowers, shrubs, birds, and insects. Natural history. 96 FAMILIAR FEATURES OF THE ROADSIDE. A far less musical singer than the tree cricket lives in the meadow grasses, and favors us in broadest daylight in the warm days of July with his ^i/?, gip, gip,. gip-see-e-e-e-e-e-e I This is Meadow Griisshopper. the common meadow grass- hopper Orcheli'iiium vulgare. He is green, and he has long antennae, so he must not be confused with the short, stumpy-feelered, red-legged locust, who is wrongly called a grasshopper. The 0rchellmum is a delicately modeled creature, about an inch long, with transparent wings through which one may readily see the green body. His legs are slender, and at the shoulder end of each wing is the liard, glassy formation which, when the wing is rapidly vibrated, rubs on the concave expansion of the other wing and causes the sharp, digging sound. The locust di lib. Cip. gip. gip. gip. zeee (grasshopper) in flying, in a very different way, pro- duces a clapping or snapping sound with his wings.* â See Trinierotropis verntculata, page 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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