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Italian race, only that they were more yellow beneath, and 

 when first from the cells, or newly hatched, they are very 

 dark, owing to the fact that the body-rings seemed pushed 

 together. They are admirable in the way they defend their 

 hives against robbers, the ease with which they are shaken 

 from the combs, their great activity, their great tendency to 

 remain in the hive on very windy days, the wonderful fecundity 

 of the queen, her persistence in laying during a dearth of nec- 

 tar-secretion, and their great euperiority for queen-rearing. 

 Fig. 12. 



Carrtiolati Drone. — X2. 

 (From Department of Agriculture.) 



often starting fifty or more good queen-cells. Neither the 

 Cyprian nor Syrian has found favor in America, and have 

 largely been given up. 



OTHER RACKS. 



The Egyptian bees are very yellow, intensely cross, and 

 frequently have laying workers. These are probably the bees 

 which are famous in history, as having been moved up and 

 down the Nile, in rude boats or rafts, as the varying periods of 

 nectar-secreting bloom seemed to demand. 



The heath bees of Northern Germany are much like the 

 common German bees, of which they are a strain, except that 

 they are far more inclined to swarm. 



The Carniolan bees (Figs. 10, 11, 12) of Southwestern 



