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ed the like Experiment with the * Hill Colonies; 
and it was obfervable that feme times they would 
transfer a Wheat Corn from the Paper* but always 
left it towards the Surface of their Settlements, 
and made no other Ufe of it than of the Straw- 
Motes and other Rubbifh they collected together. 
* 
Upon frequently fearching the fmall Black Co¬ 
lonies through the Summer Months, I found in 
abundance of their Apartments feveral Pieces of 
Worms, Flies, and other Infers, and alfo a 
Number of Yellow Ants, which they had killed and 
placed in the Cells along with their Vermicles • 
but there was no Appearance of Corn, or Refer- 
voirs defigned merely for the Ufe of Provifions. 
The Infects were diftributed in Lodgments furni- 
fhed with Young, and the Labourers foon demo- 
lifhed them. The like may be often noted in 
Colonies of Red Ants j but at the Approach of 
Winter there is no Sort of Aliment to be traced 
in any of their Cells. 
* This Species is very rapacious after the VermL 
cles and Nymphs of other Ants. If you place a Parcel 
before or near their Colonies, they will, with remar¬ 
kable Greedinefs, feize and carry them off. 
