580 EOT A URUS CICONIA 



$ ad. (New Brunswick). Differs from B. stellaris in being generally 

 smaller, in having a more slender bill, the crown and nape reddish brown 

 marked with blackish brown, the primaries uniform blackish brown, some 

 slightly tipped with chestnut, and the upper parts are more finely vermicu- 

 lated. Culmen 3'22, wing 11-5, tail 4'5, tarsus 3'85. Female duller and 

 smaller. 



Hob. The whole of temperate and tropical North America, 

 south to Guatemala, Cuba, Jamaica, and Bermudas ; a not un- 

 common straggler to the British Islands, and has not been 

 obtained elsewhere in Europe. 



In general habits and nidification it resembles B. stellaris, 

 but its note in the breeding season differs from the boom of 

 our bird and resembles the stroke of a mallet on a stake, and 

 its usual note is a rough guttural quark, but it is as a rule a 

 silent bird. Its eggs resemble those of B. stellaris, but are as a 

 rule smaller. 



CICONIA, Briss., 1760. 

 809. WHITE STORK. 

 CICONIA ALBA. 



Ciconia alba, Bechst. Naturg. Deutschl. iii. p. 48 (1793) ; Naum. ix. 

 p. 231, Taf. 228 ; Hewitson, ii. p. 317, pi. Ixxxiv. fig. 1 ; Gould, 

 B. of E. iv. p. 283 ; id. B. of Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 30 ; Dresser, vi. p. 297, 

 pi. 405 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxvi. p. 299 ; Blanf. F. Brit. Ind. 

 Birds, iv. p. 369 ; Saunders, p. 387 ; Lilford, vii. p. 41, pi. 15. 



Cigogne, French ; Cegonha, Portug. ; Ciguena, Span. ; Cigogna, 

 Ital. ; Storch, German ; Stork, Dan. and Swed. ; Aist, Russ. ; 

 Leglek, Tartar ; Badjah, Arab. ; Lag-lag, Hindu. 



<$ ad. (Albania). Plumage pure white, except tbe quills, scapulars, 

 and larger wing coverts which are glossy black ; secondaries washed 

 with grey on the outer web ; bare skin round the eye black ; chin naked 

 and reddish, but black at the base of bill ; beak and legs coral red ; iris 

 brown. Culmen 7'0, wing 22'5, tail 9*0, tarsus 8'9. Female similar but 

 rather smaller. 



Hal. Temperate and southern Europe, occurring rarely in 

 southern Sweden, Finland, and Great Britain ; wintering in 

 Africa as far south as the Transvaal ; Central and temperate 

 Asia as far east as northern India. 



In most parts where the Stork is found it is protected, being 

 supposed by the peasantry to bring luck to the farm in which it 

 builds. It feeds on frogs, insect-larvae, rats, mice, snakes, fish, 



