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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 179, 1 September 1876, Page 8

At the town of Fez, on the coast of Barbary, there is a rich hospital, expressly built and supported by large funds, for the sole purpose of assisting and nursing sick cranes and storks, and of burying them when dead ! This respect arises from a strange belief, handed down from time immemorial, that storks are human beings in that form, men from distant islands, who, at certain seasons of the year assume the shape of these birds, that they visit Barbary, and return at a fixed time to their own country, where they resume the human form.