42 ELEMENTS OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
alba), which, though very rarely seen in this country, is abun- 
dant enough i in Holland, where many pairs breed on boxes or 
other objects which Dutchmen place for them on the tops of 
their houses. They make themselves as much at home on houses 
as House-martins do; and sometimes several nests are built 
upon the same roof, although a nest is a very large structure of 
4 or 5 feet in diameter, made of sticks, reeds, and earth, and 
lined with hair, feathers, wool, rags, or cher softer objects. 
The Stork may serve as the type of about a dozen and a half 
Fig. 41. 

The Stork (Ciconia alba). 
Stork-like Birds which are, for the most part, inhabitants of 
the Old World, though amongst them is the American Jabiru 
(Mycteria americana) and certain “ Wood Storks ” (of the genus 
Tantalus), which are often spoken of as ‘“‘ Wood Ibises,” though 
they are in fact very different from the true Ibises, which will 
be spoken of later. 
Another familiar large, long-legged, long-necked Bird, which 
has an external resemblance “to he eorion is the (one (Grus 
cinerea). This Bird is said to have bred in English marsh- 
