64 CATALOGUE OF BIRDS. 



STORK. 



Case 70. 



I suppose it is best to tell the truth at once, and con- 

 fess that my knowledge of the above species (from 

 personal observation) is confined to the single indi- 

 vidual in the case. This bird had, I believe, been 

 noticed for some days in Suffolk before he made his 

 appearance in Norfolk. 



I first received word of his arrival from a carrier, 

 who, while on the road from Yarmouth to Hickling, 

 observed him fly in from the sea, and pitch in the 

 marshes near the coast. Here he was speedily disco- 

 vered by some Peewits and Books, and, after continued 

 buffetings, driven further inland. On searching the 

 ground on the following day, I met with no success. 

 A week later, however, I saw him rise from a marsh 

 at Potter Heigham, and attack a Heron that was 

 attempting to settle near his quarters. As he pitched 

 in a reed-bed close to a dike, I had not the slightest 

 difficulty in approaching within gun-shot. 



Although he had been (as I afterwards learned) for 

 a couple of days in a country abounding with frogs 

 and other suitable food, there was nothing except a 

 few large spiders in the stomach. 



The Hickling keeper, who had shot one about thirty 

 years previously, informed me that it had been feeding 

 voraciously on young pike, which it had captured on 

 some flooded marshes. 



The specimen was shot on Bush Hills, near Potter 

 Heigham, in Norfolk, in June, 1878. 



