. Cassell's book of birds . THE STILT-WALKERS. 69 THE WHITE OR HOUSE White or House Stork (Ciconia alba) has its plumage of a dirty white, with the exceptionof the quills and longest feathers on the wing-covers, which are black; the eye is brown; the beakbright, and the foot blood-red. This bird is forty-two inches long, and eighty-six across the wings ;the wing measures twenty-five, and the tail ten inches. The female is somewhat smaller thanher the simbil {Speiwrhynclms Abdtmii). one-fifth natural size. The White Stork, though common in many parts of Central Europe, is now b
. Cassell's book of birds . THE STILT-WALKERS. 69 THE WHITE OR HOUSE White or House Stork (Ciconia alba) has its plumage of a dirty white, with the exceptionof the quills and longest feathers on the wing-covers, which are black; the eye is brown; the beakbright, and the foot blood-red. This bird is forty-two inches long, and eighty-six across the wings ;the wing measures twenty-five, and the tail ten inches. The female is somewhat smaller thanher the simbil {Speiwrhynclms Abdtmii). one-fifth natural size. The White Stork, though common in many parts of Central Europe, is now but rarely seen inGreat Britain, and is met with during its annual migrations as far south as 130 north latitude. Themultitudes of these huge birds which arrive in Palestine at certain seasons, and at once distributethemselves over the whole land, is truly startling, whilst in winter not one is to be seen. On the25th of March, says Dr. Tristram, vast flocks suddenly appeared steadily travelling northwards,and leaving large detachments on every plain and hill. From that period till about the 4th of Maythey kept possession of the whole land, except where the ground was utterly barren, abounding speciallyin any marshy plains. They did not congregate like rooks, but like sheep or cattle scattered over awide pasture; the) systematically quartered every acre of the country, probably until they had cleared JO cassells book of birds. it of all the snakes, lizards,
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