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pill into the mouth of the maggots the food provided for them 

 bv the parents, which is what in beafts we name fuckhng. 



From tliefe my obfervations, I concluded that probably the food 

 which \^'e fee the Ants in thefe countries carry to their netls, is what 

 thcv, for the time, have more than they can take into their llomachs, 

 and that they hide it in holes and corners in their nclls, luitil they 

 have fed their young with the nutriment prepared in their llomachs, 

 and this being done, they refort to the provifions they have brought; 

 which being prepared in their bodies to become nourilliment for 

 their young, they can immediately, \\ ithout quitting their nells, 

 fupply the yoimg maggots with more food. 



Addition, by the Translator. 

 Mr. Leeuwenhoek having in this Effay noticed particularly, the erroneous 

 figure given by a German author, of what he calls the Ant's egg ; that 

 iiaure taken from Mr. Lceuwcnhock's copy of it, is here fubjoined : the 

 Trandator not chafing to infert it in the Folio Plate, left it Ihould, at firft 

 fight, be miflaken for a drawing given by our Author, with the accuracy of 

 whofe figures this is altogether incongruous. 



