and encouraged to remain and nest by the erection 

 of cart-wheels on poles, and boxes, and platforms 

 on house-tops, and, as stated in Yarrell, there are 

 many places in which the dwellers under roofs selected 

 as nesting-places by our bird are considered to be 

 exceptionally favoured by Providence. My own prin- 

 cipal acquaintance with the present species has been 

 formed and continued in Spain and European Turkey ; 

 in the former country the Storks do not confine them- 

 selves to the towns or villages for nesting, although in 

 Seville and Cordoba they nest on many of the church- 

 towers and other lofty edifices, but they have a special 

 liking for the huge wood- and straw-stacks that are often 

 to be found in close proximity to the farmsteads in the 

 open country, and also very frequently select an isolated 

 tree close to human habitations. In Epirus I noticed 

 that almost wherever a branching plane tree shaded the 

 frontage of a roadside " khan," it was occupied by a 

 pair of nesting Storks. I am not aware that these birds 

 are protected by the Law of Islam, but no follower of 

 the Prophet would willingly injure one of them, and I 

 was delighted to see a young Greek forced " to eat a 

 wholesome quantity of stick " for an attempt to steal 

 some Storks' eggs under the eyes of a Turkish kadi. 

 The largest assemblage of Storks that I ever saw 

 was on May 1, 1872, in the great marshes of the lower 

 Guadalquivir; these birds gave me the impression of 

 having only just arrived in the country, but they are 

 frequently to be found nesting in Andalucia in March. 

 The White Stork is virtually omnivorous, and of very 

 great service to man by its destruction of locusts and 



