56 THE HISTORY OF BEES. 
NESGELNSD CEM NTDEEANSS EPL SD CEM EEA NED 
Sue SHOP ESR? OZR Ca Yao Gg Yar us \ a? 
CHAP. WIV, 
Their Sorts, Sex, and Manner of Breeding. 
#\ HOU G H (without controverfy) all the 
Rees in a fwarm, hive or colony, are of 
the fame fpecies or kind ; yet, in their ex- 

ternal form and compofition, in the feve- 
: ral pofts or provinces they occupy and act 
‘jn, 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 
yeafon we place them in three diftin& claffes, 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. Butler tells us,* that befides the Sovereign, the 
Bees have alfo fubordinate leaders and governours, fitly 
refembling captains and colonels of foldiers, diftinguith - 
ed by particular marks, as if there were degrees of dig- 
nity among them ; but in all other refpects like the vul- 
gar. 
It appears, Pliny \ed him into this miftake, + Mr. Ruf- 
den after the Doctor has diftinguifhed them into four 
parts, viz. king, captains, commons and drones; but in 
his 
'® Butler’s Fem. Monar. pag. 6. * Phny, L.1n.0. 5. 1 R 
publicam babent, Confilia, ac fay cirta Regem Satellites, ELBE gi 
