82 The Aiffory of Bess. 
with feveral modern ones, viz. Butlkr, Pur- 
chas, Warder, Bradley, and others, plead for 
the Drones. Dr. Warder, in his true Ama- 
zons, ot. Monarchy of Bees,* affirms the » 
Ruler to be.a Female, as alfo the common 
Bees, and that the Drone is the only Male. 
As to the Sex of the laft there are many Ar- 
guments, he fays, for what he aflerts, .as that 
all ‘Creatures breed Male and Female; and ‘he 
being the biggeft, it is moft probable that 
he is of the male Kind: Yet in the next Period 
confeffes, that it’s being in Subjection:to the 
other Bees, is an Argument againft him: 
But to put the Matter into a clear Light, 
any Perfon opening the Belly of the Drone- 
Bee, he fhall find, in the fame Manner 
as in Birds, a large Pair of Tefticles, jas 
big as great Pins-heads, Milk-white, joined 
together upwards by the fpermatick Vedlel. 
——The Penis, or Inftrument of »\Genera- 
tion, is indeed much ‘more {trange, and wall 
feem incredible to ‘the Reader, till he hath 
tried the Experiment——And in. my Opinion 
will appear the fame after fuch Experi- 
ment. 
_. Yet ‘he ‘adds, that the Strangenefs of it’s 
— Form and Magnitude at firft did not a little . 
furprize him, as well it might. 
It is ‘in Célenr of a reddith White, 
and in Shape much ee ws the: Head 
of a Bullock with its Horns, -But to 
fay 

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