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with fine hairs. Thefe little articulated parts 
do not, like the former, embrace or cover the 
trunk, but are only placed near it on each 
fide, and, where they rife up about the root 
of the trunk, they are alfo articulated. As 
to the ufe of this pair, I am entirely of this 
opinion, and without any hefitation conclude 
that they are of very great affiftance to the 
trunk in the act of fucking; fince they as it 
were in the manner of two fingers affift the 
trunk, open the leaves of the flowers, and re- 
move whatever elfe might chance to obftruét it: 
therefore I compare thefe two little parts to 
the two fore feet of a Mole, by the help of 
which it pufhes the earth from the fides both 
ways, that it may be able with its fharp trunk 
to fearch for its food the more conveniently. 
The two laft little parts 64 are much lefs than 
~the firft and fecond, and are of a texture a 
little partaking of horn and bone, but rather 
membranaceous, and they are rough likewife 
with hairs: thefe, together with the trunk 
itfelf, are drawn inwards, and, as I myfelf 
think, the little articulated parts are affifted 
by them in their operations, fince they re- 
move themfelves a little from the fides of the 
trunk, and may very happily affift to puth 
afide the leaves of the flowers. Even by their 
motion they feem as if they were contrived to 
help alfo towards carrying the honey upwards, 
and preffing it towards the ftomach. 
The ftructure of the trunk 7 is partly mem- 
branaceous, and partly of a fubftance between 
horn and bone, or griftly ; but its hairy skin, 
full of cuts, muft be confidered particularly. 
Here, before I proceed any further, it is ne- 
ceflary I fhould mention firft, that I thall de- 
{cribe and reprefent the trunk here in the 
under part, as it fhews itfelf in the Bee when 
laid flat on its back. As to what regards that 
part of the trunk £4 which is of a fubftance 
between horn and bone, it is formed in fuch 
a manner, that it can fly off from the reft of 
the trunk arch-ways, and fpread itfelf in the 
fhape of a circle, Tab. XVII. fig. v1. 6; from 
whence it is that the membranaceous part 
ecce, which lie moft beautifully folded up 
under the griftly part, fig. v. 42, and joined 
with it, may be confiderably expanded on each 
fide like a fail, in the middle of which a 
maft is fixed. ‘This mechanifm, however, does 
not fhew itfelf plainly, unlefs we circum- 
{pecily and nicely, with a very fine-pointed 
needle, raife that horny bone a little up: in 
that cafe it is at length feen how the mem- 
branaceous part of the trunk is folded, and 
how it expands itfelf; fo that the internal 
cavity .of the trunk z is prodigioufly enlarged 
and widened, infomuch that a very great 
quantity of native and undigefted honey, in 
proportion to the fize of the infed, may be 
received into the trunk. Indeed, nearly the 
fame courfe of nature is feen here, that we 
obferve in Monkies, which can hide nuts and 
what other fruits they have gathered, in two 
membranous bags, which are placed on each 
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fide of their jaws: fomething like this obtains 
alfo in fome kinds of Birds, which in the 
membranaceous and expanded part of their 
bill, where the beginning of the ftomach is 
inferted, preferve a Fith they have catched. 
Amonett other water-fowls this is moft ob- 
vioufly feen in that fort of Cormorants, which 
in our way of {peaking we call Schoffers. 
Thefe birds once every year frequent the . 
foreft of Sevenhufen, not far diftant from 
Leyden, and are fhook down from the trees 
in great numbers, and as foon as they fall 
into the water they are able to fwim imme- 
diately, and to dive quickly under water, 
though they have never before either flown or 
fwam. In the fame manner Bees alfo have 
implanted in them the art of making wax, 
and gathering honey in their probofcis or 
trunk, 
Before I proceed further in the defcription 
of the trunk, I fhall infert an account of the 
manner of their catching fith in fome parts of 
Europe, by means of the juft mentioned fort 
of Cormorants: fome few years ago many of 
thefe birds were carried to England and fold 
for that purpofe. . In the firft place then they 
make them tame, fo that they may be brought 
to perch and ftay upon the hand of their own 
accord: when after this they are inclined to 
go out a fifhing with them, they tie to one of 
their legs a thin but ftrong cord, which the 
keep rolled up in a ball: afterwards they hold 
this ball, which is wound round a little feel 
pin, by a wooden handle, as our girls do 
their bobbins, while they roll off of them the 
threads made on’ the reel: thefe things be- 
ing prepared, they put a ring round the Cor- 
morant’s neck, and being now come to the 
fifh-pond, they let the Cormorant fly down 
into the water; then the cord is rolled of of 
the ball with a whizzing twirl, and the Cor- 
morant, to the great amazement of the {pec- 
tators, quickly feizes fome fifhes: thefe, how- 
ever, are ftopt at the ring that has been put 
about its neck: therefore when the Cormo- 
rant is afterwards drawn out by the cord, he 
may eafily be made to throw out again the 
fifhes it had taken into the mouth, only by 
{queezing its ftomach and throat upwards. 
A perfon of great credit and ingenuity told me 
this . ftory, who has himfelf fometimes feen 
this manner of fifhing. When I was in com- 
pany with Mr. John Oort, an old friend of 
mine at Honflaardik, I obferved with afto- 
nifhment that certain water-fowls there, when 
any fifhes were given them, would always 
turn them expeditioufly, fo that they could 
take them in head foremoft: this was done 
through great caution in them, that they 
might not be hurt by the fins of the Fithes, 
as they went down their throat. Whatever 
we could do to make thefe fowls fwallow a 
fifth tail foremoft, they could not be brought 
to it; for they always ufed, by the help of 
their beaks, dexteroufly to turn the fith over, 
To return to the trunk of the Bee; it is to 
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