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PLATALEA. (Lat. ) 



Leucorodia (Gr. Aeu/copodov, a white rose), the White Spoonbill. 



trees, and sometimes amid rushes. It contains three whitish 

 eggs, slightly spotted with red. The length of the bird is not 

 quite three feet. 



THE STORK. 



The STORK is extensively found throughout Europe, Asia, 

 and Africa. In Holland storks are very abundant, and are 

 encouraged by the Dutch to build in their towns. Among 

 the ruins of Persepolis they are very common, scarcely one 

 pillar being without a stork's nest at the summit. In 

 Holland a kind of false chimney is built by the inhabitants 

 for these birds to make their nests in. When the Stork 

 cannot find a building on which to make its nest, it chooses 

 the flat spreading branches of a cedar or pine, and there 



