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BRITISH BIRDS, 
quitting the neft, which is conftantly watched by 
one of them, while the other is feeking for, and 
bringing proviflonSj which the young receive with 
a fort of whiftling noife. 
The food of the Stork confifts of ferpents, li- 
zards, frogs, fmall fifh, &c. for which it watches 
with a keen eye, on the margins of lakes and pools, 
and in fwamps and marfhes. In low countries 
abounding with places of this defcription, the Stork 
is a welcome vifitant, and always meets a friendly 
reception. 
In its migrations this bird avoids alike the ex- 
tremes of heat and cold : in fummer it is never feen 
farther north than Sweden or Ruffia, and in win- 
ter it is not known to venture further fouthward 
than Egypt, where it is conftantly feen during that 
feafon : in the intermediate countries, both in Afta 
and Europe, it is common in the temperate feafons 
of the year. 
Before the Storks take their departure from their 
northern fummer refidence, they aifemble in large 
flocks, and feem to confer on the plan of their 
projefted route. Though they are very filent at 
other times, on this occafion they make a Angular 
clattering noife with their bills, and all feems buftle 
and confultation. It is faid that the firft north 
wind is the fignal for their departure, when the 
whole body become filent, and move at once, ge- 
