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HARVESTING ANTS. 



might chance to fall from the sacks. Another nest, in a 

 different part of the town, got its principal subsistence 

 from the grains of canary seed, which were scattered 

 by the birds occupying a cage hanging outside a shop 

 window at a little distance. 



Vertical section of an ant's nest. The horizontal lines represent 

 inches of depth. 



The granaries of ^. sfructor are arranged in the same 

 way as those of ^. barbara, and may, in like manner, be 



