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di.sliiigiiisluHl ilio cliilil whoso turn it \\;is to pursue llic rest so well, as, along with the 

 others, to be on its guard. 



Another instance of sagacity has been recorded. A farmer, in the neighbourhood of 

 Hamburg, brought into his poultry-yard a wild stork, to be the companion of a tame 

 one which he had long kept there, but tlie latter, disliking a rival, beat the wild one so 

 cruelly that he w'as compelled to take wing, and with some difliculty escaped. A few 

 months aftcrwai'ds, however, he returned to the poultry-yard, attended by three other 

 storks, when they till fell on the tame stork and killed him. 



This stately bird, though a visitdr of the continent of Europe, from the north of Spain 

 to Prussia, and particularly common in Holland, is rarely seen in Kngland except in 

 zoological collections. It was once, however, common ; and one of the many evidences 

 of the changes produced by the operations of man is afforded in tlie extinction of the 

 stoi'k. One or two solitary storks have been shot in England during the present 

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