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beginning of March did they arrive in numbers and establish themselves at their breeding- 

 haunts. In the town of Constantine nests are to be seen on the houses of the Arabs. They 

 arrive a few at a time, and I have never seen such large bands as are met with in Europe during 

 migration." Mr. Tyrwhitt Drake records it as exceedingly numerous in Tangier and Eastern 

 Morocco, where it is held sacred ; and he counted more than sixty individuals together in one 

 place ; and Major Irby informs me that " the White Stork is much more abundant in Morocco 

 than in Andalucia, though plentiful in some localities in the latter countiy. The time of migra- 

 tion is, of course, about the same on both sides of the Straits, the earliest date of arrival I noticed 

 in Andalucia being on the 11th of January; nearly all leave by the end of September. 



" On the African side in many situations, but always in the immediate vicinity of villages, 

 they nest on trees, apparently in preference to houses, and are irregular as to the time of nesting. 

 On the same day (25th of April) I found young birds, eggs, and unfinished nests, and, to show 

 how varied is the time of migration, I saw a flight of about a hundred flying northwards at an 

 immense height. As they passed on over the ' Storkery ' they lowered themselves to within a 

 hundred yards or so of the nests, as if to see how affairs were going on ; after hovering round 

 a few minutes, they worked up in a gyrating flight to their original elevation, and went off in a 

 northerly direction, doubtless to the delight of the resident Storks, who were in a state of great 

 agitation and disturbance at their appearance." It occurs on the Canaries, where, however, it 

 is only a straggler and never remains there to breed. Messrs. Berthelot and Webb when in 

 Lanzarote (Canaries) saw a large flock arrive there. 



To the southward it has, according to Lichtenstein, been obtained in Senegambia ; and 

 Mr. J. H. Gurney refers to a specimen as being in a collection from Natal, but not sent by 

 Mr. Ayres. Andersson records it as " abundant at Lake Ngami, and in many localities of the 

 lake-regions; it is also quite common during the wet season in Ondonga and in Northern 

 Damara Land, sometimes occurring in large flocks ; and it is seen occasionally during the same 

 season in Southern Damara Land." To the Cape of Good Hope it is, according to Layard, 

 " only a migratory visitant, following the flight of locusts, on which it feeds. It is not confined 

 to any locality, but pursues its prey to all parts of the country. 



" My valued correspondent, Mrs. Barber, however, informs me that it breeds in the interior. 

 She writes as follows : — ' My authority for saying that the White Locust-Cranes build their nests 

 in the interior is good, or I should not have mentioned it. When my brother Septimus was 

 lion-hunting in the Free State he saw the hills where great numbers of their old nests were. 

 Mr. William Stubbs (of the Queen's-Town district), a good observer of nature, and " a good man 

 and true," is another of my authorities ; he told me that he saw their nests upon the low rocky 

 hills near St. John's river. Like the small locust-birds, they always build their nests in the 

 neighbourhood of large swarms of young locusts, so that they may have plenty of food for their 

 young ones; for young locusts remain long near the spot where they are hatched.'" 



To the eastward it is met with to Japan, unless, as supposed by Mr. Swinhoe, the Japanese 

 Stork should prove to be a distinct species. Mr. Blanford and De Filippi both record it from 

 Persia, the former having met with it breeding in that country ; and he also observed it in Balu- 

 chistan. Dr. Jerdon refers to it as " abundant in the Deccan, the west of Central India, and the 

 N.-W. Provinces, rare in the south of India, and unknown in Bengal or in any of the countries to 



