194 THE WHITE STORK. 



When thou trillest thy song, summer's balmy wing 

 Chases mists and clouds from the mountain's brow ; 



More sweetly the birds of the grove may sing, 

 But none are so welcome and gay as thou. 



L. 



ORDER GRALL^E. 



The White Stork. 

 Ardea Ciconia. 



THE white storks, though now rare visitants, are 

 still occasionally found in this country. One was 

 shot in the county of Suffolk last year. They 

 are birds of such pleasing and interesting habits, 

 that if we knew by what means they might be 

 induced to colonize in our island, we should cer- 

 tainly attempt to lure them hither. Unlike the 

 black stork, who selects as its favourite haunts 

 the lonely desert and the desolate morass, and 

 builds its nest in the depths of the forest, the 

 white stork seeks the neighbourhood of mankind, 

 and fixes its abode in populous cities. Every 

 where it is the welcome and confiding guest of 

 man, building its nest on the roof of his house, 



