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THE BLACK STORK. 



CicoNiA NIGRA (Liiiiiaeus). 



The Black Stork is a far rarer visitor to England than its con- 

 gener, and there is no authentic record of its occurrence in 

 Scotland or Ireland. In May 1814 a bird, disabled by a slight 

 shot-wound, was captured on West Sedgemoor, Somersetshire, and 

 lived in the possession of Montagu for more than twelve months ; 

 it is now in the British Museum. Since that time examples have 

 been obtained, at long intervals, between the months of May and 

 November, in the Scilly Islands (i), Devon (i), Dorset (2), Kent (2), 

 Middlesex (i), Oxfordshire (i), Essex (i), Suffolk (i), Norfolk (2), 

 Yorkshire (i), and Durham (i). 



This species is only a straggler to Norway ; but it breeds sparingly 

 in the forests of the south of Sweden, Denmark, Brunswick, Hanover, 

 Pomerania, East Prussia and some other parts of Germany ; also 

 in Poland, Central and Southern Russia, the Danubian Provinces, 

 Turkey and Spain. In the rest of Europe it occurs as a migrant, 



