6; 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. 
It is in colour of a reddifh white, and in fhape much 
refembling the head of a bullock with it’s horns.—— 
But to fay all that will be ufeful to the Male-Bees or 
Drones, they are abfolutely neceflary to the breeding of 
Bees; haftening them by their heat, and keeping the 
egos warm : therefore it is better to kill fix working Bees, 
¢han one of thefe in May, or the beginning of ‘Fune. So 
far the Doétor. 7 
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 edification of many 
of his readers. ; 
Then adds (pag. 256.) tho’ it is difficult for us to 
know exadtly the ufe of thefe parts, yet may we fay with 
fome probability, that they appear to have been formed 
for propagation. | 
And _ 
@ Bradley's Hufbandry, &c, 
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