106 BIRDS OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 



162. CICONIA ALBA, Bechstein. White Stork. 



A white Stork (now, as Mr. Richardson, of Bever- 

 ley, informs me, in the possession of Mr. P. Lawton, 

 Innkeeper, Easington) was shot near Withernsea, on 

 the coast of Holderness, by a man named Crawforth, 

 early in September 1869*. 



163. CICONIA NIGRA (Linnseus) . Black Stork. 



Mr. Morris, in his ' British Birds/ vol. iv. p. 163, 

 records, on the authority of his brother, Beveiiey R. 

 Morris, Esq., the capture of a fine specimen of this 

 magnificent Stork by a Mr. Wake on Market-Weigh- 

 ton Common, in the East Riding, about the 29th of 

 October, 1852. This is doubtless the same, now in 

 the Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, 

 mentioned by Mr. Yarrell, ' British Birds/ vol. ii. 3rd 

 edition, p. 592. 



Is found in Eastern Russia and Siberia during the 

 summer, going south in winter. 



PLATALEA LEUCORODIA, Linnseus. White 

 Spoonbill. 



There is every probability that before the drainage 

 of the fens the Spoonbill was found in this county, 

 as was undoubtedly the case in the neighbouring 

 county of Norfolk, where they at one time nested on 

 trees, like Herons j\ Now it must be numbered 



* Zoologist for 1869, p. 1946. 



t See Mr. Stevenson's remarks on Sir Thomas Browne's notes 

 of this species in Norfolk, 'Birds of Norfolk/ vol. ii. p. 184. 



