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The Descent of Man

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temdecim,' by Dr. Hartman.), "the drums are<br />

now (June 6th and 7th, 1851) heard in all directions.<br />

This I believe to be the marital summons<br />

from the males. Standing in thick chestnut<br />

sprouts about as high as my head, where hundreds<br />

were around me, I observed the females<br />

coming around the drumming males." He adds,<br />

"this season (Aug. 1868) a dwarf pear-tree in<br />

my garden produced about fifty larvae <strong>of</strong> Cic.<br />

pruinosa; and I several times noticed the females<br />

to alight near a male while he was uttering<br />

his clanging notes." Fritz Muller writes to me<br />

from S. Brazil that he has <strong>of</strong>ten listened to a<br />

musical contest between two or three males <strong>of</strong> a<br />

species with a particularly loud voice, seated at<br />

a considerable distance from each other: as<br />

soon as one had finished his song, another immediately<br />

began, and then another. As there is<br />

so much rivalry between the males, it is probable<br />

that the females not only find them by their<br />

sounds, but that, like female birds, they are

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