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ORD. I. G E N. II. HERON. 



S P E. II. WHITE STORK. 



PI. i45- 



Ardea Ciconia. Lin. Syft. I. p. 235. 



La Cicogne blanche. Brif. Orn. V. p. 365. 



The ftork meafures three feet and a quarter in length, and is about the fize 

 of a large turkey. The plumage is for the moft part white j but the orbits of 

 the eyes are bare, and blackifh : fome of the fcapulars, the greater wing coverts, 

 and quills, are black : the bill and legs are in moft birds of a fine red, but ia 

 fome few fubjects they have been obferved to be brown : the claws are broad 

 and flat like the nails of a man. 



It is rarely feen in England, four or five times being the moft that we know 

 of; but is very plentiful on various parts of the continent, where it is migratory. 

 It is fond of building in lofty places, and in Holland makes a neft of flicks on 

 the tops of houfes, laying from two to four eggs, of a yellowifh white, about 

 the fize of thofe of a goofe. See PL XXXIII. Fig. 2. 



