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The common or white Stork. Ciconia alba;
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Numb. LXIV.
IT is bigger than the common Hern: its Neck thicker
and fhorter having but fourteen Vertebras in Number
; its Bill is long, fharp pointed, and red, the Noilrils;
oblong; the under Mandible black attheBafe; the Pupil
of the Eye of a dark purpliih Colour ; the Eye-brows
dusky, under the Eye a Border of orange Colour, like-
wife a Spot of the fame Colour on each fide the Chin ;,
the Head, Neck, Back, Belly, and covert Feathers of"
the Wings white; the quill Feathers of the Wings were
black; the Tail fhort and white ; the Legs and Feet red'
and bare above the Knees; the Claws dusky and ihaped
like human Nails: their Food is Frogs, Snails, &c. They;
are Natives of Holland, breeding on the Tops of Houfes;:
they are alfo Birds of Paffage,, coming thither in the1
Spring, and going away at Michaelmas, but to. what
Place is uncertain, they not being found in any other
Part of the known World, and: are feldom found in England
in the Summer Time without being driven over by
a Storm, or brought over by fome curious Perfon. I
faw two of thefe Birds at His Grace the Duke of Chan—
dos’s at Edger in Middlefex.