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steady love to its parents. It never forsakes them 

 when they are old, but tenderly feeds and defends 

 them as long as they live. 



The following adventure of a tame stork some years 

 ago in the University oi' Tubingen, seems to shew a 

 degree of understanding which one would scarce ex- 

 pect in the brute. creation. This bird lived quietly in 

 the court-yard, till Count Victor Gravenitz, then a 

 student there, shot at a stork's nest adjacent to the 

 college, and probably wounded the stork then in it. 

 This happened in autumn, when foreign storks usually 

 leave Germany. The next spring a stork was observ- 

 ed on the roof of the college, which after a time came 

 down to the upper gallery, the next day something 

 lower, and at last, by degrees quite into the court. 

 The tame stork went to meet him with a soft cheerful 

 note, when the other fell upon him with the utmost 

 fury. The spectators drove him away, but he came 

 again, the next day, and during the whole summer 

 there were continual skirmishes between them. The 

 spring following, instead of. one stork came four, and 

 attacked him all at once. A surprising event followed. 

 All the turkies, ducks, and geese, that were brought 

 up in the court, ran together, and formed a kind of 

 rampart round him, against so unequal a combat. This 

 secured him for the present : but in the beginning of 

 the third spring, about twenty storks suddenly alighted 

 in the court, and before the poor stork's life-guards 

 could form themselves, or the people come to his as- 

 sistance, they left him dead on the spot, which none 

 could impute to any thing but the shot fired by Count 

 Victor at the strange stork's nest. 



The Pelican somewhat resembles a swan. The body 

 is as large, the neck nearly as long, the legs are short, 

 and the feet are black, broad, and webbed, in the 

 same manner. It is also of a whitish colour, only the 

 tips of some of his feathers are black. It is much in 

 the waters : it has a most horrid voice, like that of a 

 man grievously lamenting. 



