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CICONIA ALBA. THE WHITE STORK. 



Ardea Ciconia. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 235. 



Ardea Ciconia. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 677. 



White Stork. Mont. Orn. Diet, and Supplt. 



Cicogne blanche. Ciconia alba. Temm. Man. d'Orn. II. 560. 



Ciconia alba. "White Stork. Flem. Brit. Anim. 97. 



"White Stork. Ciconia alba. Selb. Illustr. II. 45. 



Ciconia alba. "White Stork. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 192. 



Ciconia alba. Bonap. Comp. List. 46. 



Bare part of the sides of the head very small and 

 smooth ; lor at spaces feathered ; bill and feet red ; plumage 

 white; the quills, larger coverts, alula, and scapulars black. 



Although the White Stork is of very rare occurrence in 

 Britain, I have been so fortunate as to obtain for description 

 an individual shot in Shetland, from which the following 

 particulars are taken : — 



Male. — This stately bird has the body large and com- 

 pressed, the neck long and rather thick, the head ovate and 

 moderately compressed. 



The bill is about twice the length of the head, straight, 

 stout, conical, moderately compressed, tapering to a point ; 

 the upper mandible with the dorsal line straight, very 

 slightly decimate at the end, the sides sloping and a little 

 convex ; the ridge, which is obtuse, not separated by grooves ; 

 the edges sharp and direct, the tip acute ; the lower man- 

 dible with the angle very long and narrow, the dorsal line 

 ascending and very slightly convex, the sides inclined out- 

 wards and somewhat convex, the edges sharp, the tip acute ; 

 the gape-line straight, commencing under the eyes. 



The nostrils are ten-twelfths long, direct, sub-basal, per- 

 forated as it were in the bill, near the ridge. The eyes are 

 small, surrounded by a bare space of small extent. The 

 aperture of the ear roundish and rather large. 



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