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Lorraine, and on the banks of the Khone. It passes the 

 day concealed among the thick foliage of trees and shrubs, 

 and feeds only by night. It builds its nests in trees, and 

 lays four or five eggs. 



THE WHITE STORK. 



CICONIA ALBA. 



General plumage white ; scapulars and wings black ; bill and feet red : orbits 

 naked, black ; irides brown. Young hirds have the wings tinged with brown 

 and the beak reddish black. Length thi-ee feet sbc inehes. Eggs white tinged 

 with oclire. 



Sir Thomas Brown says, in his " Account of Birds found 

 in ^N'orfolk " : " The Ciconia, or Stork, I have seen in the 

 fens ; and some have been shot iii the marshes between 

 this [Norwich] and Yarmouth." His contemporary, Wil- 

 lughby, says : — " The Stork is rarely seen in England ; 

 never, in fact, but when driven liither by the wind or 

 some accident. I have received from Dr. Thomas Brow^n, 

 the eminent naturahst, a figure drawn to the life, and a 

 short description of one wldch was captured in I^orfolk." 

 YarreU records instances of a few others which have been 

 killed, at distant intervals, in various parts of England ; 

 but the Stork is so rare a visitor with us, that I have no 

 scruple in referring my readers, for a full account of the 

 habits of so interesting a bird, to some more comprehensive 

 work on the subject. 



THE BLACK STORK. 



CICONIA NIGRA. 



Upper plumage black, with green and pui-ple reflections ; under white ; bill and 

 orbits red ; irides brown ; feet deep red. In young Mrds the bill, orbits, and 

 feet, are olive green; and tlie upijer plumage is tinged with rust-brown. Length 

 nearly three feet. Eggs dull white, tinged witli green, and sometimes sparingly 

 spotted with brown. 



A STILL rarer visitor in Great Britain than the White 

 Stork, from which it differs quite as much in habit as it 

 does in colour ; for whereas the one is eminently sociable 

 with birds of its own kind, and devoted in its attachment 



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