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Wickliam. One bus been killed near Salisbury. Two bave 

 been killed in Kent ; one of them in Romney Marsh, the 

 second near Sandwich. One was killed near Mildenhall, in 

 Suffolk, in 1830. Three have been killed in Norfolk, the 

 last in 3817. I learn from Frederick Holme, Esq. that a 

 flock of four or five White Storks haunted the pools of 

 Kedby Common in the East Riding of Yorkshire, for some 

 time in the spring of 1830, and one of them was shot. One 

 specimen has been killed in Scotland, communicated to me 

 by Thomas M. Grant, Esq. and two examples are said to 

 have been killed in Shetland. 



" The White Stork, from its familiarity, and the services 

 which it renders to man in some comitries by the destruction 

 of reptiles and the removal of offal, has ever secured for itself 

 an especial protection, and an exemption from the persecution 

 which is the lot of the less favoured of the feathered tribes. 

 Its periodical return to its accustomed summer-quarters, to its 

 nest, the home of many generations, has ever been regarded 

 with feelings of pleasure ; and its visits to the habitations of 

 man have not only been permitted, but sanctioned with wel- 

 come. In various parts of Holland, the nest of this bird, 

 built on the chimney top, remains undisturbed for many suc- 

 ceeding years, and the owners constantly return with unerring 

 sagacity to the well-known spot. The joy which they mani- 

 fest on again taking possession of their deserted dwelling, and 

 the attachment which they testify towards their benevolent 

 hosts, are familiar in the mouths of every one." In Holland 

 particularly, in some parts of Germany, and indeed in all 

 countries where it breeds it is protected ; boxes are provided 

 for them on the tops of the houses ; and in several continental 

 cities, he considers himself a fortunate man whose roof the 

 Stork selects for its periodical resting-place. Its nest, formed 

 of a mass of sticks, and other coarse materials, is on some 

 part of the house top, or a tall chimney, a steeple, or an old 



