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26 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
The white Stork feeks inhabited places, and 
builds in towers, in chimneys, and on the tops. x 
houtes. . 
Ats body is white, its wings black, the legs and 
aye are red, its neck is bowed. 
It flies very ftrongly, and for along time, and, 
like all birds with long wings and a fhort tail, 
ftretches out its legs behind whilft it flies, ts 
thefe ferve as a kind of rudder. 
‘Storks are faid to live all the year in pate 
They come into Germany about the beginning - 
~ of May, and their arrival, like that of the Swale 
low, feems to point out the fpring. 
They always return to the place where they 4 
built their neft the year before: if the neft have - 
been deftroyed, they make another, with fticks . 
and bog plants. | 
They fometimes build i in very high trees, by the 
water fide, and fometimes upon the | crag of a 
rock, 
‘In Holland the people siviae boxes for ah 
to build in, and never fuffer them to be deftroyed : 
forthey are very ufeful in devouring frogs, and 
toads, and {nakes, and other reptiles or ae 
things. 
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