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The Rev. J. Hartley, in his “ Researches in Greece and the Levant,” remarks : 
“ The Greeks have carried their antipathy to the Turks to such a pitch that 
they have destroyed all the storks in the country. On inquiring the reason, I 
was informed ‘ The stork is a Turkish bird ; it never used to build its nest on 
the house of a Greek, but always on that of a Turk! ’ The tenderness which 
the Turks display towards the feathered tribe is indeed a pleasing trait in their 
character.” 
Whale-head Stork (.Balceniceps rex ) is the name given to a species found 
nowhere, I believe, outside of a small district in Northeast Africa. It does not 
migrate but spends all its time, in all seasons, about the morasses of Egypt, 
where it is sometimes seen in pairs and again in flocks of a hundred or more. The 
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thus, as part of the body and its long neck are seen above the edge, appears 
the crowning object of the pillar. The Turks hold the bird in more than even 
the usual esteem, which may be partly attributed to its gesticulations, which they 
suppose to resemble some of their own attitudes of devotion. Their name for 
the stork is Hadji lug-lug: the former word, which is the honorary title of a 
pilgrim, it owes to its annual migrations, and its apparent attachment to their 
sacred edifices. The latter portion of the denomination, “ lug-lug j is an attempt 
to imitate the noise which the bird makes. The regard of the Turks is so far 
understood and returned by the intelligent stork , that in cities of mixed popu¬ 
lation it rarely or never builds its nest on any other than a Turkish house. 
STORKS ASSEMBLING PREPARATORY TO MIGRATING. 
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