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WHITE STORK. 



Ciconia alba, FLEMING. SELBY. 



Ardea ciconia, MONTAOU. BEWICK. 



Ciconia A Stork. Alba White. 



THE winter quarters of the Stork are Egypt and other 

 northern parts of Africa; and its summer haunts, the southern 

 countries of Europe France, Holland, Germany, Turkey, 

 Spain, Poland, and southern Russia, some advancing as far 

 north as Sweden, and other districts of Scandinavia and Siberia. 

 Its eastern range extends through Asia to Japan. 



Sir Thomas Browne has recorded that he used to notice 

 these birds occasionally in the fens, and that some had been 

 shot in Norfolk, in the neighbourhood of Norwich and 

 Yarmouth. Wallis, in his history of Northumberland, mentions 

 one shot near Chollerford Bridge, in the year 1766. One 

 was shot a few miles from Buckingham, in the month of 

 September, in the year 1846, of which James Dalton, Esq., 

 of Worcester College, Oxford, obligingly informed me; and 

 N. Bowe, Esq., also of the same College, of another shot at 

 Topsham, Devonshire, on the estuary of the Exe, on the 

 28th. of July, 1852. 



The following specimens are also on record as having 

 occurred: In Wiltshire, one, near Salisbury; in Kent, one 

 near Sandwich, and one in Bomney Marsh. In Suffolk, one, 

 near Mildenhall, in 1830. The late Frederick Holme, Esq., 

 of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, asserted that four or five 

 haunted some pools on Kexby Common, in the East Biding 

 of Yorkshire, for some time, in the spring of 1830, and 

 that one of them was shot. About the year 1825, one was 

 killed at Bawtry, in that county; and about the year 1829, 



