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not, we believe, been yet settled in any one in- 
stance with a satisfactory degree of precision. In 
the beginning of April the stork arrives in small 
flocks in Holland, where it is sure to meet witha 
hospitable reception, and where it returns year after 
year to the same chimney-top. In the beginning 
of August, when the young are fully fledged, it pre- 
pares for its departure, multitudes assembling from 
the surrounding districts, and chattering with their 
bills, as if in mutual congratulation. At length, on 
the appointed night, the whole band mount into the 
higher regions of the air, and pursue their south- 
ward course, until they alight among the marshes 
of northern Africa, and especially Egypt, where 
they have been seen in the winter. 
On the subject of the migration of storks we 
may quote the following anecdote, which appeared 
lately in several public journals: | 
“Last year (1833) a Polish gentleman having 
caught a stork upon his estate near Lemburg, put 
round its neck an iron collar with this inscription, 
‘Hee ciconia ex Polonia’ (this stork comes from 
Poland), and set it at liberty. This year the bird re- 
turned to the same spot, and was again caught by the 
same person. It had acquired a new collar of gold, 
with the inscription, ‘ India cum donis remittit cico- 
niam Polonis’ (India sends back the stork to the 
Poles with gifts). The gentleman, after having 
shown the inscription to his neighbours, again set 
the bird at liberty.”* It is worthy of remark, that 
the stork emigrates on the approach of winter, even 
when circumstances of food or climate cannot op- 
erate, or can operate but faintly in inducing it to do 
so. Thus, at Bagdad, which enjoys an extremely 
mild winter, and where even a slight degree of frost 
is not usual, the stork regularly leaves the place 
against the approach of that season. 
+ % Atlas,” December 2], 1834. 
