STORKS. 133 



BLACK STOEK. Ciconia nigra, (L.) 



Yarrell, iv. p. 225; Harting, p. 145 ; Dreiser, vi. p. 309; ^'ee- 

 holun, ii. p. 529; Ibis Li4, p. 112. 



Although a rarer bird in England than the last- 

 named species, it has been met with in Dorsetshire 

 on two occasions. One was shot in Poole harbour in 

 November 1839, ^s recorded by Yarrell (iv. p. 226), 

 and is preserved in the collection of Lord Malmes- 

 biiiy at Heron Court, Christchurch ; and a second, 

 now in Mr. J. H. Gurney's collection, was procured 

 at the same attractive spot for wild-fowl exactly 

 ten years later, namely, in the autumn of 1849. 

 In 1857 two gunners described to the late Mr. W. 

 Thompson of Weymouth a bird which they had seen 

 at Lodmoor, and which he was satisfied could be 

 only this species. It was not, however, obtained. 



Fam. Plataleid^. 



SPOONBILL. Plataha kucorodia, L. 



Yarrell, iv. p. 237; Harting, p. 54; Seeholim, ii. p. 514; Ibis 

 List, p. 113; Pulte7ieij's List, p. 13; Platea leucorodia, 

 Dresser, vi. p. 319. 



Although it is now known that the Spoonbill 

 used formerly to breed in Norfolk and Suffolk, 

 Sussex and Middlesex,^ it has long ceased to be 



1 See Halting, Zoologinf, 1877 (pp. 425-429), and 1886 (pp. 81-S8). 



