182 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
tory movements,* we can scarcely wonder if slightly 
deviating from their ordinary course, stragglers should 
alight, year after year, on our eastern coast, so similar 
in many respects to their summer haunts on the opposite 
shores of Holland. But here, unhappily, instead of 
wooden boxes being erected in our towns and villages 
for their nesting accommodation, the only box provided 
is the birdstuffer’s case, wherein the victim of misplaced 
confidence inevitably finds its last home. 
CICONIA NIGRA (linnzus). 
BLACK STORK. 
If the American bittern at present holds no place 
in our Norfolk list, I am able to include for the first 
time a not less interesting species in the Black Stork, 
an extremely rare and accidental visitant to this 
country.t On the 20th of May, 1867, I received a 
* “Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; 
and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of 
their coming.” —Jeremiah viil., 7. 
+ Yarrell enumerates only four specimens killed in any part 
of Great Britain—namely, Colonel Montagu’s bird on West Sedge 
Moor, Somersetshire, May 13th, 1814; one on the Tamar, in 
Devonshire, November, 1831; one at Otley, near Ipswich, 
Suffolk, October, 1832; and one on the south side of Poole harbour, 
November 22nd, 1839. In addition to these Mr. A. Newton also 
informs me that Mr. Thornhill, of Riddlesworth, possesses a very 
fine specimen, which he obtained in the flesh more than twenty 
years since, of a labourer who had just shot it on some property 
of his own in Romney Marsh; and in Mr. J. H. Gurney’s collec- 
tion is a specimen purchased by him at Poole some years ago, 
which has a memorandum inside the case in which it was then 
mounted, to the effect that it had been killed at Poole in 1849; just 
ten years later than the one, before mentioned, from the same 
locality. 
