See also:STORK (A. S. See also:store, Ger. Storch)
, the Ciconia See also:alba of See also:ornithology, a well-known See also:bird, which, however, though often visiting
See also:Britain, has never been a native or even inhabitant of that See also:country
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It is a summer visitor to most parts of the See also:European See also:continent—the See also:chief exceptions being See also:France (where the native See also:race has been destroyed), See also:Italy and See also:Russia—breeding from See also:southern See also:Sweden to See also:Spain and See also:Greece, and being especially See also:common in See also:Poland.' It reappears again in See also:Asia See also:Minor, the See also:Caucasus, See also:Persia and See also:Turkestan, but farther to the eastward it is replaced by an allied See also:species, C. boyciana, which reaches See also:Japan
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Though occasionally using trees (as was most likely its See also:original See also:habit) for the purpose, the See also:stork most generally places its See also:nest on buildings,2 a fact See also:familiar to travellers in Den-See also:mark, See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland and See also:Germany, and it is nearly everywhere a cherished See also:guest, popular belief ascribing See also:good See also:luck to the See also:house to which it attaches itself.3 Its See also:food, consisting mainly of frogs and See also:insects, is gathered in the neighbouring pastures, across which it may be seen stalking with an See also:air of quiet dignity; but in the See also:season of love it indulges in gestures which can only be called See also:grotesque—leaping from the ground with extended wings in a See also:kind of See also:dance, and, absolutely voiceless as it is, making a loud See also:noise by the clattering of its mandibles
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At other times it may be seen gravely resting on one See also:leg on an elevated See also:place, thence to sweep aloft and circle with a slow and majestic See also:flight
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Apart from its considerable See also:size—and a stork stands more than three feet in height—its contrasted plumage of pure See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white and deep See also:black, with its See also:bright red See also:bill and legs, makes it a conspicuous and beautiful See also:object, especially when seen against the fresh See also:green grass of a luxuriant meadow
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In See also:winter the storks of See also:Europe retire to See also:Africa—some of them, it would seem, reaching Cape See also:Colony—while those of Asia visit See also:India
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A second species, with much the same range, but with none of its relative's domestic disposition, is the black stork, C. See also:nigra, of which the upper parts are black, brilliantly glossed with See also:purple, See also:copper and green, while it is white beneath—the bill and legs, with a patch of See also:bare skin See also:round the eyes, being red
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The bird breeds in lofty trees, generally those growing in a large See also:forest
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Two other dark-coloured, but somewhat abnormal, species are the purely See also:African C. abdimii and the C. episcopus, which has a wider range, being found not only in Africa but in India, See also:Java and See also:Sumatra
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The New See also:World has only one true stork, D.issura maguari, which inhabits See also:South See also:America, and resembles not. a little the
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C. boyciana above mentioned, differing therefrom in its greenish-white bill and black tail
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Both these species. are very like C. alba, but are larger and have a bare patch of red skin round the eyes
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The storks See also:form the See also:family Ciconiidae, and together with the ibises (Ibididae) are now ranked as a sub-See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of Ciconiiform birds (see BIRD)
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There is no doubt that they include. the See also:jabiru (q.v.) and its See also:allies, as well as the curious genus Aiiastomus (known in India as the open-bill," because its See also:lower 'mandible is hollowed out so as only to meet the maxilla at the See also:base and the tip), of which there are an African and an See also:Asiatic species
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In all the storks the eggs are white and pitted with granular depressions
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