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by which the stork that was sitting on it was probably wounded, 
for it did not fly out of the nest for some weeks afterwards. It 
was able, however, to take its departure at the usual time with 
the rest of the storks. But in the ensuing spring a strange 
stork was observed on the roof of the college, which, by clapping 
his wings and other gestures, seemed to invite the tame stork to 
come to him ; hut, as the tame one’s wings were clipped, he was 
unable to accept the invitation. After some days the strange 
stork appeared again, and came down into the yard, when the 
tame one went out to meet him, clapping his wings as if to bid 
him welcome, but was suddenly attacked by the visitor with 
great fury. Some of the neighbours protected the tame bird, 
and drove off the assailant, but he returned several times after- 
wards, and incommoded the other through the whole summer. 
The next spring, instead of one stork only, four storks came 
together into the yard, and fell upon the tame one ; when all 
the poultry present — cocks, hens, geese, and ducks — flocked at 
once to his assistance, and rescued him from his enemies. In 
consequence of this serious attack, the people of the house took 
precaution for the tame stork’s security, and he was no more 
molested that year. But in the beginning of the third spring 
came upwards of twenty storks, which rushed at once into the 
yard and killed the tame stork before either man or any other 
animal could afford him protection. 
A similar occurrence took place on the premises of a farmer 
near Hamburg, who kept a tame stork, and, having caught 
another, thought to make it a companion for the one in his pos- 
session. But the two were no sooner brought together than 
the tame one fell upon the other, and beat him so severely that 
he made his escape from the place. About four months after- 
wards, however, the defeated stork returned with three others, 
who all made a combined attack upon the tame one and killed 
him . 1 
The curiosity of birds is highly developed, so much 
so, indeed, that in this and other countries it is played upon 
by sportsmen and trappers. Unfamiliar objects being 
1 Watson, Reasoning Rower of Animals, pp. 375-76, where see also 
some curious cases of male storks slaying their females upon the 
latter hatching out eggs of other birds. He gives an exactly similar 
case as having occurred with the domestic cock ; and in Bingley (loo, 
cit ., vol. ii., p. 241) there is quoted from Dr. Percival another case of 
the same kind, in which a cock killed his hen as soon as she had 
hatched out a brood of young partridges from eggs which bad been set 
to her. 
