OF BIRDS. 



fymbol of the feafons of the year, placed it near their mercurial 

 crofies, on the head of their deities. Orus, the hieroglyphic of 

 the world, had the head of one placed on the top of his ilaffby 

 that fuperftitious nation. 



37. The white Stork (p), an uncommon bird in England, was 

 killed near Cbollerford-bridge. in the beginning of the year 17615, 

 by Mr. James Moor, who keeps the noted good inn at that place. 

 It is fomewhat larger than our heron, the neck thicker, which 

 makes it appear not fo long ; the body of the fize of the domeftic 

 goofe ; three or four feet high when erect. The head is large, 

 and a little deprefled on the crown ; the eyes alfo large, and of 

 a piercing afpect ; the beak long and robuft, with a fliarp point, 

 of a beautiful red for the whole length. The legs and feet are 

 of the fame colour ; the legs long and naked a great way up ; 

 the toes long.; the claws black, of the fhape of the nails of one's 

 fingers. The plumage of the whole body is white, except the 



fp) Ciconia. Bellon. Av. Icon. 45. a. bene. Cbarlet. Av. p. 108. n. i. Cicon'u alba. 

 Will. Orn. p. 210. Raj. Av. p. 97. n. i. Ardea alba, remigibus nigris. Linn. Faun. Suec. 

 p. 50. n. 136. fequenti defcriptione. 



'* Alba Cunt caput, collum, venter, cauda. nigrce remiges. roftrum pcdefque rubri. fades 

 " magna ex parte alba." 



Haec avis, quam fancla pietatis cultrix fit, erga parentes fuas fenefiute jam marcefcentes, 

 notum eft ex LEGE CICONIARUM, apud ARISTOPHANEM fepius celcbrata ;] quae inde 

 nomen traxit : quamque flagrant! arnore foetus profequatur, patet ex INCENDIO DEL- 

 PHENSI quod dum defcribit HADRIAN. JUNIUS in EATAVIJE Hift. cap. 17. obfervatum 

 fuit, inquit, " Ciconiam a pabulatione reducem, cum flammas nido fuo imminentes videret, 

 " conatam omnibus pullo grandiuf.ulos, involucres tamen, eripere mediis ex ignibus ; tan- 

 " dem defperata omni ope & quafi conclamata, paflis alis in nidum fe praecipitem dedifl'e, 

 " pullisque toto corpore obtcflis incumbere vifam fuiffe, veluti depofita vitae fpe, ultro cum 

 " chariflimis pignoribus mortem oppetituram." Charlet. Av. 1. c. 



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