920 STORM-COCK—STRUTHIONES 
Africa,—some of them, it would seem, reaching the Cape Colony,— 
while those of Asia visit India. A second species with much the 
same range, but with none of its relative’s domestic disposition, 1s 
the Black Stork, C. nigra, of which the upper parts are black, 
brilliantly glossed with purple, copper and green, while it is white 
beneath,—the bill and legs, with a patch of bare skin round the 
eyes, being red. This bird breeds in lofty trees, generally those 
growing in a large forest. Two other dark-coloured, but somewhat 
abnormal, species are the purely African C. abdimii, and the C. 
episcopus, Which has a wider range, being found not only in Africa, 
but in India, Java and Sumatra. The New World has only one 
true Stork, C. maguari,s which inhabits South America, and 
resembles not a little the C. boyciana above mentioned, differing 
therefrom in its greenish-white bill and black tail. Both these 
species are very like C. alba, but are larger, and have a bare patch 
of red skin round the eyes. 
The Storks form the Pelargi of Nitzsch, as separated by him 
from the Herons and the Ibises, but all three are united by Prof. 
Huxley in his group PELARGOMORPH (p. 702). The relations of the 
Storks to the Herons may be doubtful ; but.there is no doubt that the 
former include the ADJUTANT (p. 2) and JABIRU (p. 462), as well as 
the curious genus Anastomus (OPEN-BILL, p. 655). The relationship 
of two other remarkable forms, Bulwiniceps (SHOE-BILL, p. 838) and 
Scopus (HAMMER-HEAD, p. 405), is more questionable.? In all the 
Storks, so far as is known, the eggs are white, and in most forms 
distinguishable by the grain of the shell, which, without being 
rough, is closely pitted with pore-like depressions. 
STORM-COCK, the Mistletoe-THrusu ; STORM-FINCH, the 
Storm-PETREL (p. 709), but rather a landsman’s than a seaman’s name. 
STRANY, one of the many local names of the GUILLEMOT. 
STRIGES, Wagler’s first Order of Birds in 1830 (Natur. Syst. 
der Amphib. u.s.w. p. 80), composed of the OWLS (p. 671) as distinct 
from the ACCIPITRES (p. 1) with which they had before been united. 
STRLISORES, an Order of Birds proposed by Prof. Cabanis 
(Arch. fiir Naturgesch. 1847, 1. pp. 308, 345, 346) to consist of the 
Families Trochilidx, Cypselidx, Caprimulgidxe, Opisthocomide and 
Musophagidz (see INTRODUCTION). 
_ STRUTHIONES, the sixth Order of Birds in the classification 
of Latham in 1790 (dnd. Orn. pp. xv. 662), comprehending the 
genera Didus, Struthio, Casuarius and hea. 
1 This was formerly, but erroneously (cf Schlegel, Rev. Crit. p. 104), believed 
to have occurred in Europe. 
2 Cf. Beddard (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, pp. 543-553). Mr. Bartlett informs me 
that Scopus has a loud voice, while all Storks are dumb. 
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