.318 
ARDFJDjE. 
They are for the most part placed on the top of one ot 
the chimneys, sometimes on the very ridge of the roof, 
when they require a much larger quantity of materials 
than common to fill up the slopes on each side. 
We were agreeably surprised upon looking from the 
windows of our sleeping-room, high up in one of the 
hotels in the town of Frankfort, to observe a Stork 
upon its nest on one of the neighbouring chimneys, 
still much higher than we were. It was the first that 
we had seen, and so much delighted one of my com¬ 
panions, that he declared himself more pleased with 
it than with any other incident of our tour. The nest 
of the Stork is occasionally placed at the top of a church- 
tower. Mr. Hoy, who has seen them upon a cart-wheel, 
elevated on the end of a long pole, placed for their recep¬ 
tion, says, that they also, though seldom, build in lofty 
trees. 
Storks begin to appear about their breeding-places in 
the middle of March, unless the season is very cold and 
backward. The nest, in consequence of its accumulating 
from year to year, becomes very large; it is composed ex¬ 
ternally of sticks, smaller towards the inside, and is some¬ 
times lined with pieces of wool or the dry stems of plants 
mixed with the smaller sticks. The eggs, which are 
originally white or slightly tinted with cream-colour, 
soon become soiled and dirty: they are three or four 
in number; Mr. Hoy says, rarely, if ever, five. 
