STORKS. 133 



BLACK STOKK. Ciconia nigra, (L.) 



Yarrell, iv. p. 225; Hart ing, p. 145; Dresser, vi. p. 309; See- 

 bohm, ii. p. 529; Ibis List, p. 112. 



Although a rarer bird in England than the last- 

 named species, it has been met with in Dorsetshire 

 on two occasions. One was shot in Poole harbour in 

 November 1839, as recorded by Yarrell (iv. p. 226), 

 and is preserved in the collection of Lord Malmes- 

 bury at Heron Court, Christchurch ; and a second, 

 now in Mr. J. H. Gurney's collection, was procured 

 at the same attractive spot for wild-fowl exactly 

 ten years later, namely, in the autumn of 1849. 

 In 1857 two gunners described to the late Mr. W. 

 Thompson of Weymouth a bird which they had seen 

 at Lodmoor, and which he was satisfied could be 

 only this species. It was not, however, obtained. 



FAM. PLATALEID.E. 



SPOONBILL. Platalea leucorodia, L. 



Yarrell, iv. p. 237; Harting, p. 54 j Seebohm, ii. p. 514; Ibis 

 List, p. 113; Pulteney's List, p. 13 ; Platea leucorodia, 

 Dresser, vi. p. 319. 



Although it is now known that the Spoonbill 

 used formerly to breed in Norfolk and Suffolk, 

 Sussex and Middlesex, 1 it has long ceased to be 



1 See Harting, Zoologist, 1877 (pp. 425-429), and 1886 (pp. 81-88). 



