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IN a book that was popular about fifty years ago, entitled “Journal of a Naturalist,” the author says that the purely rural, little noticed, and, indeed, local occurrence, called by the country people “hummings in the air,” was annually to be heard in fields near his dwelling. “About the middle of the day, perhaps from twelve o'clock till two, on a few calm sultry days in July, we occasionally hear, when in particular places, the humming of apparently a large swarm of bees. It is generally in some spacious open spot that this murmuring first attracts our attention. As we move onwards the sound becomes fainter, and by degrees is no longer audible.” The sound is attributed to insects, although they are invisible.
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TOMLINSON, C. Remarkable Sounds. Nature 53, 78 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/053078a0
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