* the birds.
12 Jer 22:23 Eze 31:6 Da 4:21 Ob 1:4 Mt 13:32
* as for.
Le 11:19 Jer 8:7
* the stork.
The stork is a species of the ardea or heron genus, about the
size of a goose in its body, but when erect, about three or
four feet high; its general colour is white; extremity of the
wings, and small part of the head, black; legs, very long,
red, and naked a great way up; the toes four, long and
connected, with flat nails like those of a man; beak long,
jagged, red, and somewhat compressed; the upper and under
chaps both of a length, with a furrow from the nostrils: it
feeds on serpents, frogs, and insects, on which account it
might be deemed unclean; lays four eggs, and sits thirty days;
migrates about August, and returns in spring; and is
remarkable for its love to its parents, whom it never
forsakes, but feeds and cherishes when old; whence it had the
name {chaseedah,} which denotes kindness or piety, and stork,
from the Greek [storge,] natural affection.
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