484 WHITE STORK. 



they are common. In Holland, Flanders, and some parts of 

 Germany, wooden boxes or frames are placed on the tops of 

 towers and chimneys to induce them to nestle there ; and he 

 who has a Stork's nest on his house is esteemed a fortunate 

 mortal. In England, on the other hand, where the Stork's 

 habits are unknown, the possession of all the virtues 

 imaginable would not suffice to protect it from the prowling 

 gamekeeper and bird-stuffer. 



The only individual known to me as having been ob- 

 tained in Scotland was shot in Mainland, Shetland, and 

 presented by Mr. M. Cameron to Professor Jameson, who 

 has deposited it in the Museum of the University of Edin- 

 burgh. Mr. Yarrell states that one specimen has been killed 

 in Scotland, communicated to him by Thomas M. Grant, 

 Esq., and that two examples are said to have been killed in 

 Shetland. The Rev. Mr. Smith, Monquhitter, informs me 

 that " during the unusually severe winter of 1837-8, a 

 specimen of this rare bird was shot in a moss in the upper 

 part of the parish of Lonmay. It was nailed to a barn-door, 

 where it speedily went to decay. The people who obtained 

 it compared its red legs to Turkey leather." In the New 

 Statistical Account of the Parish of Craig, in Forfarshire, it 

 is stated by the late Mr. Thomas Molison, Montrose, that 

 " a Stork was lately (1835) seen in the basin, and after- 

 wards shot at Ethic House." Montagu states that one was 

 shot near Salisbury, in February, 1790 ; another at Sand- 

 wich, in Kent, in 1805 ; and a third in Hampshire, in 1808. 

 Since the latter period several instances of its occurrence 

 have been noted, chiefly in the southern and eastern parts of 

 England. One instance of its having been obtained in Ire- 

 land is recorded, it being stated by Dr Harvey, of Cork, in 

 the Annals of Natural History, vol. xviii. p. 70, that a fine 

 specimen was shot in the summer of 1846, near Fermoy, in 

 the county of Cork. 



Young. — When fledged, the young differ from the adult 

 only in having the bill of a duller tint, and the black parts 

 of the plumage tinged with brown, and less glossy. 



