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Family CICONIIDAs. 
WHITE STORK. Ciconia alba (Bechstein). 
Coloured Figures.—Gould, ‘ Birds of Great Britain,’ vol. iv, pl. 
30; Dresser, ‘ Birds of Europe,’ vol. vi, pl. 405; Lilford, 
‘Coloured Figures,’ vol. vii, pl. 15. 
This fine-looking bird, so familiar a feature in our 
Zoological Gardens, is but a rare and uncertain visitor, 
chiefly in spring and autumn to the British Isles. East 
Angha has furnished us with by far the most records— 
over thirty in number—and this is as we should expect 
on account of the proximity of that part of England to 
Holland, where the bird is common. On the west side 
of Great Britain the White Stork is very rare. Among 
recent occurrences may be mentioned a flock of six which 
were seen flying over the town of Newbury in Berkshire, 
on April 23rd, 1884 (Saunders), also a tired-out individual 
which was seen resting on a house-top at Great Yarmouth, 
on June 26th, 1892 (A. Patterson, ‘ Zoologist,’ 1900, p. 
414). 
In Scotland the White Stork has very seldom been 
procured or even observed, but it has wandered to the 
north of that country, for in July, 1865, two were taken 
in the Shetlands (Harting). 
To Ireland its visits are very exceptional. In compara- 
tively recent times only three examples have been obtained. 
One was taken near Fermoy, co. Cork, about the end of May, 
1846 (Thompson, Nat. Hist. Ireland, vol. 1, p. 175). It is 
preserved in the Queen’s College Museum, Cork. In the 
autumn of the same year another was obtained near the 
sea-shore of Wexford (Watters, ‘ Birds of Ireland,’ p. 138). 
A third was taken near Hop Island on the River Lee, 
co. Cork, on August 7th, 1866 (Hackett, ‘ Field,’ September 
22nd, 1866). 
Mr. J. W. Young states that he saw a White Stork on 
the wing between Athy and Stradbally, in the Barrow 
Valley, on April 20th, 1895 (Ussher, ‘ Birds of Ireland,’ 
p. 170). 
