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weeks, after which they were purely mated, and every One of 

 the two hundred chickens were without any Brahma marks. 

 Even the leg-s were absolutely clean. Likewise, thousands of 

 drones, reared from pure Syrian queens, but mated to Italian 

 drones, showed not the slightest Italian taint. I believe teleg- 

 ony is a very doubtful hypothesis. 



THB NEUTBRS, OR WORKER-BBEs. 



These, called "the bees" by Aristotle, and even by Wild- 

 man and Bevan, are by far the most numerous individuals of 



Fig. si. 



Wor]<er-Bee much magnified, from Newman. 



the hive — there being from 15,000 to 40,000 in every good col- 

 ony. It is possible for a colony to be even much more popu- 

 lous than this. (Lubbock says that there are often 50,000 

 worker-ants in a nest.) These are also the smallest bees of 

 the colony, as they measure but little more than one-half of 

 an inch in length (Fig. 51.) As already stated, it takes about 



