u4 THE HISTORY OF BEES. 
following (the weather being tolerable) you may expect 
‘the fwarm. 
It is delightful to attend to thofe pecw iar and mufical 
founds or notes, being an eighth or chord, which is tru- 
ly harmonious. Dr. Butler has taken pains to fhew us 
the compafs the fong contains in the gamut, or feale of 
mufick: the Queen compofing her part (or bafs) within 
the four lower cliffs; and the Princefs hers (a treble) in 
the four upper cliffs. ‘The fwarm ready to come forth, 
the notes are louder, quicker, and more conftant. When 
the greater part of the fwarm is out, the mufick is at an 
end, and we hear no more. Sometimes the royal grant 
is revoked, and then all the royal iffue are flain. 
As every general rule has an exception, I mutt tell my 
reader, that the fecond day of une 1716. after a fwarm 
was come out, that very evening, and the two follow- 
ing, they gave notice for a fecond fwarm, which rofe 
the fifth day, when I joined them to the firft. ‘That 
night, and the next, they called as before, and rofe 
twice; I returned them both times, at each taking a 
Queen from them: a few days after they rofe a third 
time, fettled, yet went home again. Finally, they rofe 
a fourth time, when I took two Queens from them, 
putting them back to the old ftock, after which they 
came forth no more. I mention this as being very fin- 
' gular, and what I never obferved before, nor fince. 
I very perfectly remember, tho’ many years ago, I 
heard thefe previous notices given for a firft fwarm, 
which are exceeding rare (that being the only time I 
ever took knowledge of them) and in a colony too; where 
placing 
