Although the story line remains more or less constant, the fable has been differently titled. In the Perry Index, where it is numbered 194, it is a fowler who has caught the stork in his nets.[1] In his catalogue of the fables, Adrados refers simply to a bird-catcher and relates the story of a farmer,[2] as does the Neo-Latin poet Hieronymus Osius (1564).[3] For William Caxton (1484) he was a labourer[4] and in Samuel Croxall's collection (1722) he is called a husbandman.[5]