920 STORM-COCK— STRUTHIONES 



A.frica, — some of them, it would seem, reaching the Cape Colony, — 

 while those of Asia visit India. A second species with much the 

 same range, but with none of its relative's domestic disposition, is 

 the Black Stork, C. nigra, of which the upper parts are black, 

 brilliantly glossed with purple, copper and green, while it is white 

 beneath, — the bill and legs, with a patch of bare skin round the 

 eyes, being red. This bird breeds in lofty trees, generally those 

 growing in a large forest. Two other dark-coloured, but somewhat 

 abnormal, species are the purely African C. abdimii, and the C. 

 ejnscopus, which has a wider range, being found not only in Africa, 

 but in India, Java and Sumatra. The New World has only one 

 true Stork, C. maguari,^ which inhabits South America, and 

 resembles not a little the C. hoydana above mentioned, differing 

 therefrom in its greenish- white bill and black tail. Both these 

 species are very like G. alba, but are larger, and have a bare patch 

 of red skin round the eyes. 



The Storks form the Pelargi of Nitzsch, as separated by him 

 from the Herons and the Ibises, but all three are united by Prof. 

 Huxley in his group PELARGOMORPHiE (p. 702). The relations of the 

 Storks to the Herons may be doubtful ; ■ but there is no doubt that the 

 former include the ADJUTANT (p. 2) and Jabiru (p. 462), as well as 

 the curious genus Anastomus (Open-bill, p. G55). The relationship 

 of two other remarkable forms, Balxniceps (Shoe-bill, p. 838) and 

 Scopus (Hammer-head, p. 405), is more questionable.^ In all the 

 Storks, so far as is known, the eggs are white, and in most forms 

 distinguishable by the grain of the shell, which, without being 

 rough, is closely pitted with pore-like depressions. 



STORM-COCK, the Mistletoe-THRUSH ; STORM-FINCH, the 

 Storm-PETREL (p. 709), but rather a landsman's than a seaman's name. 



STRANY, one of the many local names of the Guillemot. 



STRIGES, Wagler's first Order of Birds in 1830 {Natur. Syst. 

 der Amphib. u.s.w. p. 80), composed of the Owls (p. 671) as distinct 

 from the Accipitres (p. 1) with which they had before been united. 



STRISORES, an Order of Birds proposed by Prof. Cabanis 

 {Arch, fur Naturgesch. 1847, i. pp. 308, 345, 346) to consist of the 

 Families Trochilidas, Cypselidx, Caprimulgidx, Opisthocomidas and 

 Musopliagidse (see Introduction). 



STRUTHIONES, the sixth Order of Birds in the classification 

 of Latham in 1790 {Ind. Orn. pp. xv. 662), comprehending the 

 genera Didus, Struthio, Casuarius and Ehea. 



^ This was formerly, but erroneously {cf. Schlegel, Rev. Crit. p. 104), believed 

 to have occurred ia Europe. 



2 Cf. Beddard {Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, pp. 543-553). Mr. Bartlett informs me 

 that Scopus has a loud voice, while all Storks are dumb. 



