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tory movements,* we can scarcely wonder if slightly- 

 deviating from their ordinary course, stragglers should 

 alight, year after year, on our eastern coast, so similar 

 in many respects to their summer haunts on the opposite 

 shores of Holland. But here, unhappily, instead of 

 wooden boxes being erected in our towns and villages 

 for their nesting accommodation, the only box provided 

 is the birdstuffer's case, wherein the victim of misplaced 

 confidence inevitably finds its last home. 



CICONIA NIGRA (Linnams). 

 BLACK STOEK. 



If the American bittern at present holds no place 

 in our Norfolk list, I am able to include for the first 

 time a not less interesting species in the Black Stork, 

 an extremely rare and accidental visitant to this 

 country.f On the 20th of May, 1867, I received a 



* " Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times ; 

 and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of 

 their coming." Jeremiah viii., 7. 



f Yarrell enumerates only four specimens killed in any part 

 of Great Britain namely, Colonel Montagu's bird on "West Sedge 

 Moor, Somersetshire, May 13th, 1814; one on the Tamar, in 

 Devonshire, November, 1831 ; one at Otley, near Ipswich, 

 Suffolk, October, 1832 ; and one on the south side of Poole harbour, 

 November 22nd, 1839. In addition to these Mr. A. Newton also 

 informs me that Mr. Thornhill, of Riddles worth, possesses a very 

 fine specimen, which he obtained in the flesh more than twenty 

 years since, of a labourer who had just shot it on some property 

 of his own in Eomney Marsh ; and in Mr. J. H. Gurney's collec- 

 tion is a specimen purchased by him at Poole some years ago, 

 which has a memorandum inside the case in which it was then 

 mounted, to the effect that it had been killed at Poole in 1849 ; just 

 ten years later than the one, before mentioned, from the same 

 locality. 



