STORKS. 145 



One, Dunbarnie Links, near Largo, Sept. 1867 : R. Gray, 



Birds of West of Scotland, p. 314. 

 One on the Clyde, Lanarkshire, " some years ago : " R. Gray, 



Ibis, 1870, p. 292. 



ESQUIMAUX CURLEW. Numenius borealis (Forster)*. 

 Hob. North America. 



One, Cairn Monearn, near Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, 6th 



Sept. 1855 : Longmuir, Naturalist, 1855, p. 265 ; Yarrell, 



Hist. Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 620. 

 One on the Aide, near Aldeburgh, Suffolk : Hele, Notes 



about Aldeburgh, p. 177. Not preserved. 

 One, Woodbridge, Suffolk : Hele, op. cit. In the possession 



of Mr. Hilling, of Woodbridge. 

 One purchased in Dublin in the flesh, 21st Oct. 1870 : Blake- 



Knox, Zoologist, 1870, p. 2408. In the collection of Sir 



Victor Brooke f. 



Fam. CICONIID.E. 



BLACK STOEK. Oiconia nigra (Linnaeus). 

 Hab. Europe; India; Africa. 



One, West Sedge Moor, Somerset, 13th May, 1814 : Montagu, 



Trans. Linn. Soc. 1818, vol. xii. p. 19. 

 Three, Norfolk, 1823 : Stevenson, Birds of Norfolk, vol. ii. 



p. 183. 

 One, on the Tamar, Devon, 5th Nov. 1831 : Moore, Mag. 



Nat. Hist. 1837, p. 321 ; Rodd, Zoologist, 1848, p. 2147. 



* Numenius borealis of Forster, Phil. Trans. Ixii. p. 411 (1772), 

 and Latham, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 712 (1790); not of Gmelin, whose 

 borealis, Syst. Nat. i. p. 654 (1788), is hudsonicus of Latham, I.e. 



t I am informed by Sir Victor Brooke, that this specimen was 

 ascertained to have been shot in Sligo. 



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