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to say nothing of being encouraged, as it is among most of 

 the Teutonic races, the Stork might breed in this country. 



In Ireland, which appears to be west of the line of its 

 migrations, there is an authentic record of a bird in the 

 collection of Dr. Harvey, of Cork, shot near Fermoy about 

 the end of May 1846 ; and Mr. Hackett states (Zool. s.s. 

 p. 524) that an example weighing 8 lbs. was killed in co. 

 Cork on the 7th August, 1866. 



Although the White Stork does not breed in Norway, it 

 has been known as far north as Bergen, and it is an annual 

 spring visitant to the south, where it experiences a reception 

 as inhospitable as that of England. It breeds in the south 

 of Sweden ; also in Denmark ; and south of the Baltic the 

 nests are a familiar sight from Poland to Holland, Alsace, 

 and Lorraine, where it is encouraged and protected, as it is 

 throughout Central Europe. In France proper, owing to 

 persecution, it is novsr only a migrant ; and in Italy, Sicily, 

 Sardinia, and Malta it appears to be of irregular occurrence ; 

 but in Spain it nests freely on the towers and belfries of the 

 churches in the towns and cities, and on the ' almiares ' or 

 stacks of the farmhouses. It is equally abundant in the 

 Danubian Provinces, Turkey, and Southern Russia ; but in 

 Greece and the islands of the Archipelago it is less common. 

 It breeds in Asia Minor ; and, sparingly, in Palestine, which 

 it visits in great numbers on migration ; the summer range 

 extending through Persia to Central Asia ; and during 

 winter it is found in Baluchistan, and in India, according 

 to Blyth, as far south as Calcutta. In Mongolia, Man- 

 churia, Northern China, and Japan, our species is represented 

 by Ciconia boyciana, in which the bill is black, and the bare 

 space in front and behind the eye is vermilion-red, and not 

 black as in our bird. 



In the west, the White Stork has straggled to the 

 Canaries ; and is abundant from early spring to autumn 

 throughout Northern Africa. A few winter in Algeria, 

 and immense numbers migrate through Egypt. South- 

 wards its winter range extends to Cape Colony, and there 

 is tolerably good evidence that some pairs breed there. 



