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64 THE HISTORY OF BEES. 
Yet he adds, that the ftrangenefs of it’s form and 
magnitude at firft did not a little furprize him, as well 
it might. : uh 
It is in colour of a reddith white, and in hone much. 
refembling the head of a bullock with it’s horhs,—— 
But to fay all that will be ufeful to the Male-Bees or 
Drones, they are abfolutely neceflary tothe breeding of 
Bees; haftening them by their heat, and keeping the 
eggs warm : therefore it is better to kill fix working Bees, 
than one of thefe in AZay, or ‘the beginning of June. So 
far the Doétor. 
Mr. Bradley* fays, the conformity there is between — 
the inward parts of common Bees and Drones is fuch, 
that we have not been able to difcern any difference be- 
tween them; only the parts fituated at the extremity of 
the belly are very different from thofe of the Bee. 
The Bees have a little bladder which contains the 
poifon, difcharged by the fting thro’ which it pafles ; but 
the Drones have neither fting nor bladder; yet have they - 
fome other parts, which may lead us to underftand the 
end for which nature hath defigned them. 
He obferves four glandulous cylindrical bodies under 
the inteftines ; and inferts a large account of fix or fe- 
ven pages, not much to the profit or RS of many . 
of his readers. 
Then adds (pag. 256.) tho’ it is difficult for usto ~ 
know exactly the ufe of thefe parts, yet may we fay with 
fome probability, that they appear to have been formed - 
for propagation. 
And 
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