48 GRALLATORES. CICONIA. STORK. 



BLACK STORK. 



CICONIA NIGRA, Bellon. 



PLATE XI*. 



Ciconia nigra, Ran Syn. 97. 2 Will 211. t. 52 Shaw's Zool. 11. 620. 



Wagler, Syst. Av. 1. sp. 9 Bechst. 4. 96. 

 Ardea nigra, Linn. Syst. 1. 235. 8 Gmel. Syst. 1. 623. Lath. Ind. Ornith. 



2. 677. 11. 



Ciconia fusca, Briss. 5. 362. 1. t. 31. young. 

 Cicogne noire, Buff. Ois. 7. 271. Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 562. 

 Schwarzer Storck, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 2. 348. 

 Black Stork, Perm. Arct. Zool. 11. 456 Will. (Angl.) 286. t. 52. Lath. 



Syn. 5. 50. 11 Mont. Trans, of Linn. Soc. v. 12. 19 Shaw's Zool. 11. 



620 Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 97- 11* 



Very rare THIS beautiful species is entitled to a place amongst the 

 visitant British Fauna, from the capture of one (after being slightly 

 wounded by shot in the wing), at Westsedgemoor, in So- 

 mersetshire, in May 1814. This bird was afterwards pre- 

 sented alive to Montagu, who kept it for some years in con- 

 finement, and who, availing himself of such an opportu- 

 nity, has given a very interesting account of its habits in a 

 paper published in the 12th volume of the Transactions of 

 the Linnean Society, and to which I refer my readers. From 

 that account it appears, when captured, to have been a young 

 bird ; and he had the satisfaction of witnessing the various 

 changes of plumage it underwent, previous to maturity. 

 This species is a periodical visitant in many countries of 

 Europe, but its longitudinal range does not extend so far as 

 that of Ciconia alba, as it is unknown in Holland. Its lati- 

 tudinal flight, however, seems to be even greater, as it passes 

 over Sweden in vast flocks on its passage to Siberia and 

 the extreme northern continental point. In its natural state, 

 it is of a much more timid disposition than the preceding 

 species, never, like it, resorting to the neighbourhood of 



towns or villages. Its abode is generally in the marshy parts 



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