PLATE CLXXIX. 



CrcoGNE Blanche. Buff, Hijl, Qif p, tss, n, 12.— 

 €7iL n. 866. 



White Stork. If ill. ( JngL) p, 236» t, 52. 

 Jlhhi. 2. t. 64. 



LatL Sj/th 5. p. 47.'^Sf/ppl p. 234. 



The Stork is a general inhabitant of various parts of Europe, 

 Afia, and Africa, preferring however the more mild and' temperate 

 regions, and migrating regularly in flocks mider the guidance of a 

 leader, at certain feafons, from one country to another, in order to 

 avoid the extreme of heat and cold. For this reafon, the Stork is 

 never met with between the tropics, and is rarely known to penetrate 

 northward beyond the country of the Swedes, or the fouthern parts of 

 Ruflia. In Holland, it is met with only during the fummer, arriving 

 in the fpring, and departing about Michaelmas. In England the 

 Stork is very rare. 



Like the reft of the Grallse race, the Stork feeds on fiflies, frogs, 

 and other reptiles, and being a large and powerful bird is emineiilly 

 ferviceable in thofe countries infefted with ferpents, and other noxious 

 creatures, which it attacks and deftroys with impunity. All writers 

 concur in affuring us, that in many of the eaftern countries, the Stork 

 is held in great refpe6l: in Egypt, the fens of which they vifit in 

 autumn, they are highly venerated ; and in Turkey they are never 

 moleited, but alloM cd to build upon the tops of their lioufes,^ and even 

 fometimes on places of religious worfliip. In Perlia alfo, they are 

 treated with equal lenity ; and no European traveller need be informed, 

 that ill certain parts of Spain, of France, and Holland, they expe- 

 rience every poffible indulgence^ and are allowed to build their nefts 



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