s6 THE HISTORY OF BEES. 
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Their Sorts, Sex, and -Manner of Breeding, 
a) H O U G H (without controverfy) all the 
#2 || Bees in a fwarm, hive or colony, are of 
the fame fpecies or kind ; yet, in their ex- 
2 || ternal form and compofition, in the feve- 
ral pofts or provinces they occupy and act 
in, the offices they feparately difcharge, together with the 
ends and ufes they are appointed to ferve, there is a ve- 
ry great and manifeft diverfity among them ; for which 
reafon we place them in three diftinét clafles, viz. the 
Sovereign or Regent, the common honey Bees, or work-~ 
_ jng part of the nation, and the Drones : no other order a 
mong them. can be admitted. 
Dr. Builer tells us,* that befides the Sovereign the 
Bees have alfo fubordinate: leaders and governours, fitly 
‘refembling captains and colonels of foldiers, diftinguifh - 
_ed by particular marks, as if there were degrees of dig- 
nity among them ; aye in all other Pai like the vul- 
gar. 
It appears, Pliny led him into this miiflake: + Mr. Ruf: 
‘den after the Doétor has diftinguifhed:them into four 
parts, viz. king, ‘captains, commons.and drones; but in 
: his 
® Butler’s Foem. Monar. pag. 6. t+ Pliny L. 1106, 5,1 Re : 
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