SOF BARD Bes! ae 
“The Stork walks flowly, with secitined fleps 
like the Crane, and often makes a br. fnap- 
, ping noife with his bill. 
At Perfepolis, in Perfia, Storks are in great 
numbers; they build among the ruins, and on 
sear bai almoft there is a neft. They lay from 
two tofour eggs: the male fits whilft the female 
_ goes to feed itfelf. They fit a month ; either the 
male or female: is conftantly sae near the 
neft, ‘The legs of the young are very long, 
and at firlt too weak to fupport them, fo that 
they draw themfelves about in the neft upon - 
their knees, The old birds take great pains 
to teach them to fly; at firft they fly in little 
_ circles round the neft, and by the latter end of 
- Auguft, when they leave Holland and France with 
? their parents, to go into warmer climates, they | 
- can fly very well... : 
hen they are met together, in order, like 
_ ether birds of paflage,.to fly into diftant countries, 
a they make this fnapping noife with their bills, and“ 

they wait for ‘a wind from the north, which affifts - 
_ them: in their flight to a warmer climate, They 
rife all at once in the air, and difappear in a mos 
ment, ‘They. pafs the winter in Africa, 
_ Dr, Shaw, whilft he was inva:fhip at anchor | 
“Near le: Carmel, in Turkey, in Afia, faw three 
B2- Hights 
