CICONIA. PLATALEA. 1 99 



Ciconia nigra. BLACK STOKK. 



Ardea nigra Lintmus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 142 : 

 Sweden. 



Ciconia nigra (Linn.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 112 ; 

 SJiarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. 1898, p. 303 ; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 389. 



Nigra = black. 



Distribution in the British Islands. An Occasional Visitor. 

 About twenty occurrences have been recorded in England : 

 one from Durham and two from Yorkshire, and the re- 

 mainder from the more southern counties and the Scilly 

 Islands. 



General Distribution. The Black Stork breeds in Europe 

 and Asia, ranging from southern Sweden and central Russia 

 eastwards across Siberia, south of about 55 N. latitude, to 

 Mongolia, southwards to Spain, Turkey, Palestine, Persia, 

 Turkestan, and north China. In winter it visits Africa, 

 ranging southwards to the Cape and to India. 



Suborder PLATALEA. 

 Family PLATALEID^. 



Genus PLATALEA Linna>ns, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 139. 

 Type : P. leucorodia Linn. 



Platalea = the Spoonbill, in Cicero, N. D. ii. 49, 124; Platea, in Pliny, 

 H. N. x. 40, 56 ; probably from TrXariis = broad. 



Platalea leucorodia. SPOONBILL. 



Platalea leucorodia Limmw, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 139 : 

 Sweden. 



Pktalea leue-orodia Linn. ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 113 ; 

 SJiarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. 1889, p. 44 ; Saundcrs, 

 Manual, 2nd cd. 1899, p. 393. 



