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WHITE STORK. 



PLATE CLXII. FIG. I. 



Ciconia alba, FLEMING. SELBT. 



Ardea ciconia, MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



A HEAP of sticks and twigs, with any other coarse materials forms 

 the nest of this bird. It is placed on a house top, the summit of 

 some tall chimney, the steeple of a church, or an old tower, or turret; 

 as well as on the highest parts of the loftiest trees, in the immediate 

 vicinity of the most crowded thoroughfares. 



The eggs are usually three or four in number; white, tinged with 

 buff, and of a short oval form. The young are hatched after a month's 

 incubation, and are attended to with sedulous attention by both parents, 

 until fully fledged and able to provide for themselves. The old birds 

 feed them from their own bills, with food they have previously 

 swallowed. 



