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a flock was seen on the Trent, two, supposed to belong to 
which, were shot, also near Bawtry. In March, 1831, one 
was shot at Bretton Hall, near Barnsley, the seat of Thomas 
Wentworth Beaumont, Esq. Other instances, I believe, have 
occurred. One was shot on the sea-shore near Skipsea. A 
bird also, that appeared to be of this species, was seen below 
Wansford, in the parish of Nafferton, near Driffield, in the 
spring of 1846, by E. H. Beynard, Esq., and — Fife, Esq. 
In Hampshire, one was obtained at Little Park, near Wickham. 
In Devonshire, three. 
In Norfolk, a pair were shot in the Burgh Marshes, in 
the summer of 1817; another before that time, and one seen 
in the autumn of 1810, and one shot at Halvergate,' May 
11th., 1842. One, on Breydon, near Yarmouth, about the 
15th. of March, 1851; and another was said to have been 
killed near Yarmouth, about the beginning of January, in 
the same year. One or two are killed in most years, generally 
in the spring months, and in the vicinity of the coast. 
In Scotland it has occurred more than once. One was 
shot in the parish of Lonmay, near the Loch of Strathbeg, 
not far from the sea-shore, between Peterhead and Frazerburgh, 
in Aberdeenshire, in the winter of 1837-38. 
In Orkney, a White Stork was caught in South Bonaldshay, 
in 1840, and kept alive for some time; being prevented from 
escaping by its wings being clipped, it used to keep company 
with a flock of tame geese. 
In Ireland, it is also said to have been met with formerly; 
and three were seen near Fermoy, in the county of Cork, 
and one of them procured about the last week in May, 1846. 
Who has not read of the Stork at the conflagration of 
Delft, which, after attempting in vain to convey away her 
young to a place of safety, remained with them and perished—• 
a never-dying example of maternal devotedness. But the bird, 
indeed, must always have been noticed for the like feeling, 
from thence its name, one and the same with the expressive 
word ‘Storge,’ natural affection—the innate impulse which the 
Almighty Author of Good has implanted in every living 
creature, whether developed more or less ostensibly to man, 
and in many cases in a degree which even man himself does 
not and cannot exceed. 
The Stork is in much esteem in the countries where it is 
plentiful as a destroyer of reptiles and vermin, and as a 
‘Sanitary Commissioner’ is of great use and efficiency, by the 
