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Gigaatic Stork.-This bird is sometimeS upwards of six feet. According to the tra- weller, Denham, it is protected by the in habitants of Africa, on account of it's services as scayenger. Nothing comes amiss to its appetite. Smeathman gives an account of a tame bird of this species, "which regularly attended the hall at dinner time, and placed

 itself behind its masters chair. It frequent ly helped itself to what it liked best; and one day darted it's bill into a boiled fowl, which it swallowed in an instant. It used to fly about the whole country, and generally roasted high among some silk cotton trees. From this station, at the distance of two or three miles, it could see when the dinner was car ried across the court, when it immediately took wing, and flying with great swiftness, ar rived in time to enter the house with some of those who carried the dishes It sometimes remained in tlle room for half an hour after dinner, turning its head alternately from side to side, with an appearance of unusual gravi- ty, as it listened to the conversation. It one day swallowed a cat. "--.N r G. (touyM!) J