14 MAY 1892, Page 15

AN ORNITHOLOGICAL EVICTION.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.]

SIR,—The authorities of a small place in the Pfalz, recently decided in solemn council to remove a stork's nest from the top of a very high church-steeple. The nest could only be approached outside the steeple by means of a specially fixed ladder. The storks saw the slater who had undertaken the perilous task, approaching, but waited calmly until he was quite near. Then they flew away, and the slater triumphantly removed the nest. Arrived on the ground with his trophy, he was warmly congratulated on his feat by the assembled in- habitants of the place; but lo! at the same moment the evicted storks returned with materials for a new nest, which they began to build on the same spot without delay.—I am,