STORK. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Ardea Ciconia. A. alba, orbitis remigibusque nigris, rostra, 
pedibus, cuteque, sanguineis. Linn. Syst. 
Nat. Gmel. 1. p.621. 
Body white ; wing feathers black ; beak, feet, 
and skin, of a blood red colour. 
Ciconia alba. Briss. Av. 5. p. 3 65. t. 32. 
White Stork. . Buff'. Birds, v. 7 . p. 243. pi. 173. Will. Orn. 
p. 286. t. 52. All. Av. t.64. Lath. Syn. 3. 
p. 4 7 . no. 9. Bew. Birds , p. 32. 
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Who bid the stork, Columbus like, explore 
Heavens not his own, and worlds unknown before ? 
Who calls the council, states the certain day. 
Who forms the phalanx, and who points the way ? 
Pope. 
The migration of birds to different parts of the 
world at stated times, from which they never vary, 
forms one of the most curious as well as most in- 
teresting phenomena in nature. Among the rest, 
the storks prepare with great exactness for their 
flight ; and about the latter end of August leave 
Europe to pass the winter in climates more con- 
genial to their nature. They are convened, pre- 
vious to their departure, from all the neighbouring 
