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BLACK STORK. 



Ciconia nigra, FLEMING. SELBY. 



Ardea nigra, MONTAGU. 



Ciconia A Stork. Nigra Black. 



THE Black Stork is found in* greater or less numbers in 

 various countries of Europe, being not uncommon in Swit- 

 zerland and some parts of Germany, abundant in Hungary 

 and Poland, and very rare in France and Holland. It travels 

 northwards as far as Finland, Sweden, and Russia, and is 

 found also in Italy, in tbe salt marshes, and in Turkey. 

 In Asia it occurs likewise in Siberia, and to the extreme 

 north, as well as Persia, Syria, Ceylon, Java, and the neigh- 

 bourhood of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea; and 

 likewise in Africa, at the Cape of Good Hope, and from 

 thence to the Mediterranean and Madeira. Also in America, 

 both on the continent and the Islands of the West Indies 

 St. Domingo and Martinique. 



The following are the examples of this species that have 

 occurred in England: One, recorded by Colonel Montagu, 

 shot on Sedge Moor, so fatal to other lives, in the parish of 

 Stoke St. Gregory, Somersetshire, on the 13th. of May, 1814; 

 one on- the River Tamar, in Devonshire, in 1831; one shot in 

 October, 1832, in the parish of Otley, near Ipswich, Suffolk; 

 and one in the Isle of Purbeck, near Poole, Dorsetshire, on 

 the 22nd. of November, 1839. One also in Yorkshire, on 

 Market Weighton Common, in the East-Riding, by Mr. 

 Wake, about the 29th. of October, 1852, as recorded in 'The 

 Naturalist,' volume iii., page 19, by my brother, Beverley R. 

 Morris, Esq. Another was killed on the Weald of Kent a 

 few years since, as Mr. Chaffey, of Dodington, has been good 

 enough to inform me. 



