198 CICONIID.E. 



Newfoundland to the southern United States, where it 

 becomes less frequent. In winter it ranges southward to 

 Central America and the West Indies. It is accidental in 

 Greenland, the Azores, and Guernsey, where single examples 

 have been procured. 



Suborder CICONIA. 

 Family CICONIID.E. 



Genus CICONIA Bnsson, Orn. v. 1760, p. 361. 

 Type : C. clconia (Linn.). 



Cicdnia=& Stork, in classical Latin; cognate with cdno=I sing, KVKVOS=B, 

 Swan, KavaM=& sharp sound, Koi/a/3os a din, etc. 



Ciconia ciconia. WHITE STORK. 



Ardea Ciconia Linrueus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 142 : 

 Sweden. 



Ciconia alba BecJist.; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 112; 



Saundcrs, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 387. 

 Ciconia ciconia (Zw.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. 1898, 



p. 299. 



Distribution in the British Islands. An Occasional Visitor, 

 mostly to the southern parts of England, and chiefly to East 

 Anglia, where over thirty specimens have been obtained. 

 A few have been met with from time to time in Scotland 

 as far north as the Orkney and Shetland Islands, while in 

 Ireland three have been recorded. 



General Distribution. The White Stork breeds in Europe, 

 western and central Asia, and north-west and western Africa, 

 ranging from southern Scandinavia, eastwards to Turkestan, 

 southwards to Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and the Gold 

 Coast ; also to Asia Minor and Palestine. In winter it visits 

 central and southern Africa, where it is reported to have 

 nested ; also India and Ceylon. It is represented in eastern 

 Siberia, Korea, and Japan by an allied species. 



