914 DUTCH AND ENGLISH BIRDS. 
Breeds in small numbers in the province Zuid Holland. 
It makes its nest on trees. Leaves in autumn. 
A rare straggler to the Br. Isl. 
Genus Botaurus. 
Botaurus stellaris Linn. 
A regular but not numerous summer visitor to Holland, 
where it breeds in marshes. 
A formerly common regular visitor to the Br. Isl. in 
cool weather (H. 5.). 
(Botaurus lentiginosus) (Montagu). 
Genus Ciconia. 
Ciconia alba Bechstein. 
A regular summer visitor to Holland, more numerous in 
the western provinces, generally coming in march and 
leaving about the 20th of August. The nest is made on 
flat chimney-tops, on a wheel placed on the top of along 
pole, or on trees that have lost their crown so as to make 
a suitable foundation for the large nest. — A rare straggler 
to the Br. Isl. 
Ciconia nigra (Linn.). 
A rare straggler to Holland and the Br. Isl. 
Genus Platalea. 
Platalea leucorodia Linn. 
Formerly a very numerous summer visitor to Holland, 
where it bred in large colonies in several localities. 
As in later years so many marshes and lakes have been 
drained, their breeding places have considerably decreased, 
so that only two colonies remain which are in the prov. 
Noord Holland. 
The nest is from one to three feet high, generally 
built in shallow places of the marsh so that it reposes 
on the mud. If the water is deeper it is more or less 
floating on the water but is always made of, and sur- 
rounded entirely by reed — so that it never floats about. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
