14 WHITE STORK. 



WHITE STORK. 



PLATE CLXII. FIGURE I. 



Ciconia alba, FLEMING. SELBY. 



Ardea ciconia, MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



A heap of sticks and twigs, with any other coarse 

 -j- 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 thorough- 

 fares. It becomes very large from being accumulated 

 year after year. 



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. 



