

26 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
The white Stork feeks inhabited places, af 
builds in towers, in chimneys, and on the tops 
houtes. | 
Its body is white, its wings black, the legs ay 
beak are red, its neck is bowed. 
It flies very ftrongly, and for a long time, anf 
like all birds with long wings and a fhort t 
ftretches out its legs behind whilft it flies, a 
thefe ferve as a kind of rudder, 
Storks are faid to live all the year in Japan, 
‘They come into Germany about the beginning 
of May, and their arrival, like that of the Sw 
low, feems to point out the {pring. 
They always return to the place where th 
built their neft the year before: if the neft hay 
been deftroyed, they make another, with fick 
and bog plants. 
They fometimes build in very high trees, byt 
water fide, and fometimes upon the crag of 
rock, 
In Holland the people provide boxes for the 
to build in, and never fuffer them to be deftroyed 
for they are very ufeful in devouring frogs, a 
toads, and fnakes, and other reptiles or creepis 
things. 
