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by a membrane as far as the first joint. Wings rather large ; the first quill-fea- 

 ther 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 visiter 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 Northumberland, men- 

 tions 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 ad- 

 jacent parts to view it. The winter -quarters of the White 

 Stork are the northern parts of Africa, and more particular- 

 ly Egypt, from whence it migrates in March or April to 

 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 Spain and 

 Turkey. 



This species is said to have been killed in Ireland. Dr. 

 Edward Moore on the authority of Mr. Gosling, says, that 

 three birds have been obtained in Devonshire within the 

 last fifteen years. One was killed in Hampshire in 1808 by 

 the gamekeeper of John Guitton, Esq., of Little Park, near 

 Wickham. One has been killed near Salisbury. 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. Three have been killed in Norfolk, the 

 last in 1817. I learn from Frederick Holme, Esq., that a 

 flock of four or five White Storks haunted the pools of 

 Kedby Common in the East Riding of Yorkshire, for some 



