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which did not hreak the hone, and the hird lived in his 

 possession more than twelve months, in excellent health. 

 This example is still preserved in the British Museum. 

 Since that time the species has heen observed on several 

 occasions. Mr. Stevenson found in Mr. Joseph Clarke's 

 MS. notes on rare birds at Yarmouth, a record that three 

 Black Storks were followed in Norfolk for some days in the 

 year 1823 ; and one, shot at Otley, in Suifolk, in October 

 1832, is stated by the late Eev. J. Mitford (Jesse's Glean- 

 ings, 3rd Ser. ii. p. 188) to have been in the possession of 

 Mr. Acton [erroneously printed Diton], of Grundisburgh, 

 near Ipswich. In November 1831 a specimen was obtained 

 on the Tamar or the Lynher, on the borders of Devon and 

 Cornwall, and was recorded by the late Dr. E. Moore, who 

 saw the bird while warm. On the 22nd November, 1839, 

 a Black Stork, in the collection of the Earl of Malmesbury, 

 at Heron Court, Christchurch, w^as killed in Poole Harbour, 

 Dorsetshire ; and in the same locality another, now in Mr. 

 J. H. Gurney's collection, was obtained in 1849. In Kent, 

 one was shot prior to 1844 in Romney Marsh ; and on the 

 5th of May, 1856, another was obtained near Lydd in the 

 same district. A fine specimen w^as shot on Market Weigh- 

 ton Common in 1852, and is now in the Museum of the 

 Yorkshire Philosophical Society. In Durham one, near 

 Hartlepool, in August 1862, was recorded by and came into 

 the possession of Mr. Christy Horsfall (Zool. p. 8196). Mr. 

 Gould, in his ' Birds of Great Britain,' mentions an example 

 obtained at Otmoor in November 1862 ; and this is jiossibly 

 the same which is said by Mr. C. M. Prior to have been 

 shot on the 5th August, 1865, on Osmoor, a large tract of 

 low-lying land some nine miles N.E. of Oxford (Zool. 1877, 

 p. 180). On the 19th of May, 1867, an adult female was 

 shot in Norfolk at Westacre, where it had been living about 

 the river for a week or more, as recorded by Mr. Anthony 

 Hamond, jun. (Ibis, 1867, p. 382), in whose collection it 

 now is. Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., states, in Mason's ' History 

 of Norfolk,' that one was shot at Breydon, on the 27th of 

 June, 1877. Lastly, a bird of this species appears to have 



