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CLXXIX. 



Tlie Stork has been known of late years to vifit the fouthern coafts 

 of Britain. One, Dr. Latham was informed by Mr. Boys, had been 

 picked up dead, but fre(h, on the ihore of Sandwich Bay ; another, 

 as Hated by Mr, Macreth, was ftiot in the winter of 1785, at South- 

 fleet, in Kent ; and Mr. Montagu mentions another Ihot in Hamp- 

 fhire, in the autumn of 1808, by the game-keeper of Major Guiton. 



and Afbin a fecond in Middlefex." This latter obfervation we are afraid has arifen 

 from overfight (a circumftance by no means ufual in the writings of Dr. Latham), 

 for the words of Albin, as above tranfcribed, and to which by the fynonyms we are 

 icferred, can never be fuppofed to imply, that the Stork had been (hot in Mid- 

 dlefex, but only that he faw Storks at the Duke of Chandos, in Middlefex ; and 

 which, from the general tendency of the text, we Ihould apprehead, had been intro* 

 lJuced ae curiofities by the Duke from Huiiand. 



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