252[Footnote]: To convey anything like a correct idea of this extremelybeautiful fish, it should be `laid in' with a ground ofburnished silver, and the delicate tints added. -- Pragmites communis, Trin. by means of which they are able to take longflying leaps from bough to bough, and thus from tree to tree. 104: We heard everywhere on the gumtrees the cricket-likeinsects--usually called locusts by the colonists--hissingtheir reed-like monotonous noise.