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pies of tliis bird have occurred since. The first of these 

 three was shot on the Taraar in November 1831, and the 

 circumstance has been recorded by Dr. E. Moore in Devon- 

 shire, and by Mr. Couch in Cornwall. Dr. Moore saw this 

 bird while warm, and it is now in the collection of Mr. Drew. 

 The second is recorded in the seventh volume of the Maga- 

 zine of Natural History, page 53 : it was shot in October 

 1832, in the parish of Otley, about eight miles from Ips- 

 wich. The third is of still more recent date. In reference 

 to this bird, I received two communications on the same day : 

 one from the Earl of Malmesbury, who had purchased the 

 specimen for his own collection at Heron Court, near Christ- 

 church, and to whom I have the honour to acknowledcre 

 my obligations for various interesting particulars of British 

 Birds : the other from my friend, William Thompson of 

 Lytchet, near Poole, but a short distance across the water 

 from the spot where the bird was obtained. This Black 

 Stork was shot in the Isle of Purbcck by a clay-boat man in 

 a marshy field on the banks of the Middleburg creek, at the 

 south side of Poole Harbour, on Friday the 22nd of Novem- 

 ber, 1839, and passed into the possession of a poulterer in 

 Poole, named Rogers, who from proximity to a spacious har- 

 bour, the resort of numerous water-fowl, occasionally obtains 

 very rare specimens, and was in possession of a recently- 

 killed Glossy Ibis at the time the Black Stork was in hand 

 for preservation. 



Colonel Montagu''s bird was captured by means of a slight 

 shot wound in the wing, which did not break the bone, and 

 the bird lived in his possession more than twelve months, in 

 excellent health. It was shot in West Sedge Moor, adjoin- 

 ing the Parish of Stoke St. Gregory, Somersetshire, on the 

 13th of May, 1814 ; and what is remarkable, another very 

 rare bird, the White Spoonbill, was shot on the same moor, 

 by the same person, in November of the preceding year. 



