BRITISH BIRDS. 
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nerally in the night, and, taking an extenfive fpi- 
ral courfe, they are foon loft in the air.* 
The Stork is now feldom feen in Britain : Wal- 
lis, in his hiftory of Northumberland, mentions 
one which was killed near Chollerford-bridge, in 
the year 1766. Its Ikin was nailed up againft the 
wall of the inn at that place, and drew crowds of 
people from the adjacent parts to view it. The 
foregoing figure was taken from a ftuffed fpecimen 
' in the Wycliffe mufeum, 
* The Stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times ; 
and the Turtle and the Crane, and the Swallow obferve the 
lime of their coming.’^ Jeremiah viii. 7. 
