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WHITE STORK. 

 (Ciconia alba.) 



Ci. alha, orlitis nudis remigihus scapularihusque nigrisj rostro 



pedibus cuteque sanguineis. 

 White Stork, with the orbits naked, and with the quills and 



scapulars black j the beak, legs, and skin, blood-red. 

 Ciconia alba. Briss, Orn, 5. 365. 2. pi. 32. — Rati. Syn, gy. a. 

 Ardea Ciconia. Linn. Syst,Nat. ]. 235. 7* — Limi. Faun. Siiec, 



\Q2,—Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 622. 7. --Lath. hid. Orn. 2. 6/6. 9. 

 Cicogne blanche. Buff. Ois. 7. 253. pi. \2.—Biiff. PL Enl. 866. 



^Temm. Man. d'Orni. 358. 

 White Stork. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 455. c.— Will. Ang. 286. pL 



52, — Alb. Birds. 2. pi. 64. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 47. — Lath. 



Syn. Sup. 234. — Lew. Brit. Birds. 4. pi. 144 — JFalc. Syn. 2. 



pi. 125. — Betv. Brit. Birds. 2. 31. — Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. — 



Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup. — Bing. Anim. Biog. 2. 288. 



This well known bird has the head, the neck, 

 and the whole of the body, of a pure white : the 

 scapulars and wings black : the beak and legs red : 

 the naked space round the eyes black : the irides 

 brown : it is in length about three feet five or six 

 inches. The young have the black on the wings 

 tinged with brown, and the beak of a dusky red. 



The Stork inhabits various parts of the tem- 

 perate regions of the old continent. It rarely 

 visits England, though in various parts of France 

 and in Holland, it breeds every where on the 

 house tops, the inhabitants providing boxes for 

 the purpose, and are careful that the birds receive 

 no injury J the consequence of this is that the 



