field cornet (feld kornet)

The magistrate of a township in Cape Colony, South Africa. field-cricket (feld krik" et), n. An English name of Acheta (or Gryllus ) campestris, one of the most noisy of all the crickets, larger but rarer than the house-cricket. It frequents hot, sandy districts, in which it burrows to the depth of from 6 to 12 inches, and sits at the mouth of the hole watching for prey, which consists of insects. See cut under Gryllus. The slow shrilling of the field - cricket in the gra . S. Lanier , Sci. of Eng. Verse, p. 33.