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WHITE STORK. 
(Ciconia alba.) 
Ci. alha, orlitis nudis remigihus scapular ihiisque nigris, rostro 
pedibus cuteque sanguineis. 
. White Stork, with the orbits naked, and with the quills and 
scapulars black ; the beak, legs, and skin, blood-red. 
Ciconia alba. Briss. Orn. 5. 365. 2. pi. 32. — Rail. Syn. Q’j. a. 
Ardea Ciconia, Linn. Syst.Nat. I. 235. 7* — Linn. Faun. Suec. 
162 . — Gmel.Syst. Nat. 1 . 622. 7- — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2 . 676 . 9 . 
Cicogne blanche. Buff. Ois. 7 . 253. pi. 12 . — Buff. PI. Enl. 866 . 
— Temm. Man. d' Orni. 358. 
White Stork. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 455. c . — Will. Ang. 2Q6.pl. 
52. — Alb. Birds. 2. pi. 64. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 47 . — Lath. 
Syn. Sup. 234. — Lew. Brit. Birds. 4. pi. 144. — Wale. Syn. 2. 
pi. 125. — Bew. Brit. Birds. 2. 31. — Mont. Orn. Diet. 2 . — 
Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup. — Bing. Anim. Biog. 2. 288. 
This well known bird has the head, the neck, 
and the whole of the body, of a pure white : the 
scapulars and wings black : the beak and legs red : 
the naked space round the eyes black : the irides 
brown : it is in length about three feet five or six 
inches. The young have the black on the wings 
tinged with brown, and the beak of a dusky red. 
The Stork inhabits various parts of the tem- 
perate regions of the old continent. It rarely 
visits England, though in various parts of France 
and in Holland, it breeds every where on the 
house tops, the inhabitants providing boxes for 
the purpose, and are careful that the birds receive 
no injury; the consequence of this is that the 
