BLACK STORK. 559 



1815 ; and I am not aware that more than three other ex- 

 amples of this bird have occurred since. The first of these 

 three was shot on the Tamar in November 1831, and the 

 circumstance has been recorded by Dr. E. Moore in Devon- 

 shire, and by Mr. Couch in Cornwall. Dr. Moore saw this 

 bird while warm, and it is now in the collection of Mr. 

 Drew. The second is recorded in the seventh volume of 

 the Magazine of Natural History, page 53 : it was shot in 

 October 1832, in the parish of Otley, about eight miles 

 from Ipswich. The third is of still more recent date. In 

 reference to this bird, I received two communications on 

 the same day : one from the Earl of Malmesbury, who had 

 purchased the specimen for his own collection at Heron 

 Court, near Christchurch, and to whom I have the honour 

 to acknowledge my obligations for various interesting parti- 

 culars of British Birds : the other from my friend, William 

 Thompson of Lytchet, near Poole, but a short distance 

 across the water from the spot where the bird was obtained. 

 This Black Stork was shot in the Isle of Purbeck by a 

 clay-boat man in a marshy field on the banks of the Middle- 

 burg creek, at the south side of Poole Harbour, on Friday 

 the 22nd of November, 1839. 



Colonel Montagu's bird was captured by means of a slight 

 shot wound in the wing, which did not break the bone, and 

 the bird lived in his possession more than twelve months, in 

 excellent health. It was shot in West Sedge Moor, ad- 

 joining the Parish of Stoke St. Gregory, Somersetshire, on 

 the 13th of May, 1814 ; and what is remarkable, another 

 very rare bird, the White Spoonbill, was shot on the same 

 moor, by the same person, in November of the preceding 

 year. 



The habits of Colonel Montagu's bird in confinement are 

 thus related in the communication to the Linnean Society 

 that has already been referred to. 



