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Stories about birds of land and water (1874)

Kirby, Mary, 1817-1893, Kirby, Elizabeth, 1823-1873 · Hartford [Conn.] : American Publishing Co. · leaf 230

An illustration from Stories about birds of land and water, 1874, leaf 230 — ss gun, so that there is no chance of theirdwelling among us. THE STORK. .27 A white stork was seen in Northumberland in the last century, and, ofcourse, shot directly. Its body was nailed to the wall of an inn, and crowdsof people came to look at it as a great curiosity. Since then, as lately as… … TIIK WHITE STORK. How much might our stock of English birds be increased and improvedbut for this fatal habit of wanton destruction ! There is a black stork as well as a white stork ; and it, too, has now andthen been seen in England, and met with the same reception as its relative.In one case a…

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