ADDITIONAL NOTES. IX. 

 STORGE. 



And Heaven-born STORGE weaves the social chain. Canto II. 1. 92. 



THE Greek word Storge is used for the affection of parents to 

 children; which was also visibly represented by the Stork or Pelican 

 feeding her young with blood taken from her o\vn wounded bosom. 

 A number of Pelicans form a semicircle in shallow parts of the sea 

 near the coast, standing on their long legs; and thus including a shoal 

 of small fish, they gradually approach the shore ; and seizing the fish 

 as they advance, receive them into a pouch under their throats ; and 

 bringing them to land regurgitate them for the use of their young, 

 or for their future support. Adanson, Voyage to Senegal. In this 

 country the parent Pigeons both male and female swallow the grain or 

 other seeds, which they collect for their young, and bring it up mixed 

 with a kind of milk from their stomachs, with their bills inserted into 

 the mouths of the young doves. J. Hunter's works. 



The affection of the parent to the young in experienced mothers 

 may be in part owing to their having been relieved by them from the 

 burden of their milk; but it is difficult to understand, how this affec- 

 tion commences in those mothers of the bestial world, who have not 

 experienced this relief from the sucking of their offspring; and still 

 more so to understand how female birds were at first induced to incu- 

 bate their eggs for many weeks; and lastly how caterpillars, as of the 

 silk-worm, are induced to cover themselves with a well- woven house 

 of silk before their transformation. 



These as well as many other animal facts, which are difficult to 

 account for, have been referred to an inexplicable instinct; which is 

 supposed to preclude any further investigation: but as animals seem 

 to have undergone great changes, as well as the inanimate parts of the 

 earth, and are probably still in a state of gradual improvement; it is 

 not unreasonable to conclude, that some of these actions both of large 



