HERODIONES. 



BLACK STOEK. 



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 CICONIIDjE. 



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CicoNiA NiGKA (Linnseus*). 



THE BLACK STORK. 



Ciconia nigra. 



The first occurrence of the Black Stork in a wild state 

 in this country was made known by Montagu, in a paper 

 read before the Linnean Society on the 2nd of May, 1815. 

 Montagu's bird was captured on West Sedgemoor, adjoining 

 the parish of Stoke St. Gregory, Somersetshire, on the 13th 

 of May, 1814, by means of a slight shot-wound in the wing, 



* Ardea nigra, Linnajus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 235 (1766). 



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