WHITE STORK. 587 



toes, three in front, united by a membrane as far as the first joint. Wings 

 rather large ; the first quill-feather shorter than the second ; the third and 

 fourth quill-feathers the longest in the wing. 



IN the days of Merrett, Willughby, and Ray, the White 

 Stork was considered a very rare visitor to this country. 

 Dr. Turner even mentions that he had only seen it in con- 

 finement ; but Sir Thomas Browne, writing at Norwich, 

 says, " I have seen this bird in the fens, and some have 

 been shot in the marshes between this and Yarmouth." 

 Bewick says that Wallis, in his History of Northumber- 

 land, mentions one which was killed near Chollerford 

 Bridge, in the year 1766. Its skin was nailed up against 

 the wall of the inn at that place, and drew crowds of 

 people from the adjacent parts to view it. The winter- 

 quarters of the White Stork are the northern parts of 

 Africa, and more particularly Egypt, from whence it 

 migrates in March or April to Spain, France, Holland, 

 Germany, Poland, and Russia. Others, taking a more 

 westerly direction, visit Sweden, and even gain a high 

 northern latitude in Scandinavia, returning southward 

 early in August. It is common in Turkey. 



This species is recorded by Dr. Harvey to have been 

 killed at Fermoy, in Ireland. Dr. Edward Moore, on the 

 authority of Mr. Gosling, says, that three birds have been 

 obtained in Devonshire. One was killed in Hampshire in 

 1808, by the gamekeeper of John Guitton, Esq., of Little 

 Park, near Wickham. One has been killed near Salis- 

 bury. One bird, out of a flock of four, was shot in 

 Oxfordshire. Two have been killed in Kent; one of 

 them in Romney Marsh, the second near Sandwich. One 

 was killed near Mildenhall, in Suffolk, in 1830. Several 

 have been killed in Norfolk. I learn from Frederick 

 Holme, Esq., that a flock of four or five White Storks 



