. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . never in the day. It is a weird,unearthly noise, not to be dignified by the name of note,and may be heard at a considerable distance. The bird isso shy that the noise is instantly stopped on the slightestalarm. Some writers have likened it to the bellowing of abull; others think it resembles the neighing of a horse;whilst more imaginative ornithologists trace in it a resem-blance to their ideal of demoniac laughter. I
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . never in the day. It is a weird,unearthly noise, not to be dignified by the name of note,and may be heard at a considerable distance. The bird isso shy that the noise is instantly stopped on the slightestalarm. Some writers have likened it to the bellowing of abull; others think it resembles the neighing of a horse;whilst more imaginative ornithologists trace in it a resem-blance to their ideal of demoniac laughter. It consists oftwo parts—one supposed to be produced as the bird inhales,and the other as it exhales its breath. Naumann attemptsto express it on paper by the syllable ii-prumb, repeatedslowly several times. The call-note, which is common toboth sexes, is a hoarse croak like the ca-wak of the NightHeron, or cry of a Eaven, and is sometimes heard when thebirds are on migration; but the boom is only heard fromthe reeds, and as it is uttered the bird is said to stand withits neck stretched out and its beak pointing upwards. ^ Seebohni, British Birds, vol. ii. (1884), p. HERODIONES. ( 64 ) CICONllDM. THE WHITE STOEK. Ciconia alba. Where the Rhine loses its majestic force In Belgian plains, won from the raging deep By diligetice amazing and the strong Unconqitering hand of Liberty, The Stork Assembly meets, for many a day Consulting deep and various ere they take Their arduous voyage through the liquid sky. Thomson, Autumn. A FINE specimen of this very lure bird was shot in a fieldon the farm of Blackpotts, near Coldingham, in 1848, andwas for many years in the collection of Mr. William Patter-son, Abbey Farm, North Berwick, where I have frequentlyseen it. The White Stork occasionally visits the British Islandsduring the spring and autumn migrations, but has seldomoccurred in Scotland. It winters in Africa, and in summerbreeds in most of the countries of Europe, where its arri
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