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of this statement, and as the specimen was in bad order 

 from dust and exposure, I did not enquire if it was for 

 sale." 



Family CICONIID^. 



Genus CICONIA, Brisson. 

 WHITE STOKK. 



Ciconia ciconia (Linnaeus). iS.iV., i., p. 235 (1766). 



The White Stork is a comparatively rare visitor to 

 Kent, and few records of its occurrence have been made. 



Boys, in his Birds of Sandicich, 1792, gives a " single 

 instance at Sandwich." 



The Kev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, 1844, says: "It is 

 rare. A specimen is in Br. F. Plomley's collection." 

 This bird was obtained in Romney Marsh, and is now 

 in the Bover Museum. 



Mr. J. H. Gurney states that "on March 18, 1871 

 (as I learn from Mr. Gasson), a White Stork was shot 

 by Mr. Hearsfield at a low swampy place near Lydd, in 

 Kent, called ' Fairfield Brack,' within 40 rods of where 

 a Black Stork was shot fifteen years ago. These birds 

 were preserved by Mr. G. Jell, who on May 10, 1871, 

 sent to me a White Stork in the flesh, which was killed 

 about the 8th, by Mr. James Lording, in the parish of 

 Midley, also close to Lydd. It was walking about in 

 a field quite away from any water, and four or five miles 

 from the sea." 



The Eev. C. H. Fielding adds Chalk as a locality for 

 this bird, and Mr. Howard Saunders says that a young 

 bird was shot in September, 1882, in Kent. 



