RARER BRITISH BIRDS. 



BLACK STORK. 



Ciconia Nigra. WILLOUGHBY. 



FEW are the well-authenticated instances of the occurrence 

 of this most beautiful of the Storks in this country, so few, 

 that, had they not been well-authenticated, we should have had 

 some hesitation in admitting it into our volume, merely as a 

 straggler. One of these birds was obtained, being only slightly 

 wounded, near Stoke Gregory, in the County of Somerset, on 

 the 13th of May 1814, and sent to Colonel Montagu, in whose 

 possession it lived some time. The interesting notes of that 

 eminent British ornithologist on its habits and moulting, are 

 given in the twelfth volume of the " Linnaean Transactions." 



The Black Stork, both in food and general habits, is like 

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