STORK 437 



One, Cairn Monearn, near Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, 

 Sept. 6, 1855 : Longmuir, Nat, 1855, p. 265 ; Yarrell, 

 " Hist. Brit. Birds." Exhibited at meeting of Aberdeen- 

 shire Nat. Hist. Assoc, Oct. 19, 1855. 



One shot by Capt. Ferrand on the Aide, near Aldeburgh, 

 Suffolk, prior to 1870: Hele, " Notes about Aldeburgh," 

 p. 177. 



One purchased in Dublin in the flesh, Oct. 21, 1870: 

 Blake-Knox, Zool, 1870, p. 2408. Said to have been 

 shot in Sligo : A. G. More, " List of Irish Birds," p. 26, 

 and Ptoc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 299. Presented by the 

 late Sir Victor Brooke to the Science and Art Museum, 

 Dublin. 



One, Aberdeenshire, Sept. 29, 1878 : Harting, Zool, 1879, 

 p. 135. Expanse of wing, 27*75 in. ; weight, 8 oz. 



One, Forest of Birse, Kincardineshu-e, Sept. 21, 1880: 

 Harvie-Brown, Zool., 1880, p. 485 ; Sim, torn, cit, p. 515. 

 The stomach contained crow-berries. 



One, Tresco, Scilly, Sept. 10, 1887: Cornish, Zool, 1887, 

 p. 388. 



Obs. This is the Nunienius horealis of Forster, 

 Phil Trans., Ixii. p. 411 (1772), and Latham, " Ind. 

 Orn.," ii. p. 712 (1790) ; not of Gmelin, whose 

 horealis, " Syst. Nat.," i. p. 654 (1788), is hudsonicus 

 of Latham, Ic. 



Order IX. HERODIONES 

 Fam. CICONIID^. 



BLACK STORK. Ciconia nigra (Linnseus). PI. 24, tig. 



4. Length, 3 ft. 4 in. ; bill, 7-75 in. ; wmg, 21 in. ; 



tarsus, 8-25 in. 

 Hab. Europe, as far north as Southern Sweden, east- 

 ward to Mongolia and China; wintering in India, Persia, 

 and Africa to the Cape. 



