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Every perfedl Colony of Ants, has at lead one 
Queen, who, in the Space of Seven or Eight 
Months, gives Birth to a Family, at a moderate 
Computation amounting to Four or Five Thou¬ 
sand : Except the Red Queens who are not fo pro¬ 
lific. She is eafily diftinguiftied by her fuperior 
Largenefs, different Colour, and the particular Re- 
fpeci fhown her by the reft. 
As the Yellow Ants are moft frequent, I {hall 
give a Defcription of their Queen, and afterwards 
mention any Circumftances wherein the others 
differ from her. 
A Queen of the Yellow Ants, is in regard of 
Size perhaps five Times larger than any of her 
Subjects. Her Colour is a kind of Bay intermixt 
with Yellow, and carries the Glofs of a fineVelvet, 
Her Head is furniftied, like the common Ants, 
with a Mouth, a double Saw, a Pair of Feelers, 
two Eyes one on each Side her Head, and a Neck 
which unites it to the Breaft. She has moreover 
on her Front three Eyes lefs than the others, and 
placed in a triangular Form. They are very con¬ 
vex, of a brown Colour, and jut out like Small 
Beads. We meet with the Same Apparatus in 
Bees, and probably the Reafon is the Same in both* 
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