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ther's voice. Every fpecies of infet depofits its eggs in the 

 fituation moft proper for hatching and affording nourifh- 

 ment to its future progeny. Some fpecies of animals look not 

 to future wants j others, as the bee and the beaver, are endowed 

 with an inftinct which has the appearance of forefight. They 

 conftruct magazines, and fill them with provifions. Bees 

 difplay various remarkable inftincts. They attend and feed 

 the female or queen. When deprived of her, all their labotirs 

 ceafe till a new one is obtained. They conftruct cells of three 

 different dimenfions ; for working bees, for drones and for fe- 

 males ; and the queen in depofiting her eggs, puts each fpecies 

 into its appropriated cells. They deftroy all the females but 

 one, left the hive mould be overstocked. The different in- 

 ftincts of the common bee, of the wood-piercing bee, and of 

 that fpecies which builds cylindrical nefts, with rofe-leaves, are 

 very remarkable. 



EQUALLY fingular are the inftincts of wafps, and ichneumon 

 flies, which though they feed not themfelves upon worms, lay up 

 ftores of thefe animals for the nourifliment of their young. 



BIRDS build their nefts of the fame materials, and in the fame 

 form and fituation, though they inhabit very different climates. 

 They turn and fhift their eggs, that they may be equally heated. 

 Geefe and ducks cover up their eggs till they return to the 

 neft. The fwallow folicits her young to void their excrement 

 over the neft, and affifts them in the operation. The fpiders, and 

 many infects of the beetle-kind, when put in terror, counterfeit 

 death. This is not, as has been fuppofed, a convulfion or ftu- 

 por, but an artifice ; for when the object of terror is removed, 

 they recover immediately. 



OF inftincts which can accommodate themfelves to peculiar 

 circumftances and fituations, many inftances may be given from 

 the human fpecies ; but thefe being improveable, fall more pro- 

 perly under the third clafs. 



(F) THOSE 



