562 ARDEIDJE. 



Germany, and said to be abundant in Hungary and Poland. 

 M. Polydore Boux considers it a bird of Provence ; it is 

 found in the salt marshes of Italy ; inhabits Turkey ; and 

 the Eussian naturalists enumerate it in their catalogue of 

 the birds found in the countries between the Black and the 

 Caspian Seas. It has been found in Nepal and at Calcutta. 

 It probably inhabits, during the winter, a great part of 

 Northern Africa, since Dr. Heineken included it among the 

 birds of Madeira, and its southward range is extensive, Dr. 

 Andrew Smith having brought specimens with him from 

 the Cape of Good Hope. 



The character of the Black Stork, as observed by Mr. 

 E. T. Bennett, and others, is in one respect diametrically 

 opposed to that of the White Stork. Instead of domesti- 

 cating itself, as it were, with man, it shuns his society, and 

 makes its temporary dwelling in the most secluded spots, 

 frequenting impenetrable morasses, or the banks of such 

 rivers and lakes as are seldom disturbed by the presence of 

 intruders, and building its nest on the summits of the 

 loftiest pines. It lays two or three eggs, of a buify white 

 colour, about two inches seven lines long, by one inch and 

 eleven lines in breadth. 



A very fine specimen of the Black Stork has lived in the 

 menagerie of the Zoological Society in the Regent's Park 

 for the last ten or twelve years ; it seems perfectly quiet, 

 never using its powerful beak as a weapon of offence against 

 its fellow-prisoners, and makes no noise except the clatter- 

 ing sound which it produces by the snapping of its man- 

 dibles. 



This Black Stork has stood for his portrait to illustrate 

 the Ornithological works of Mr. Bennett, Mr. Selby, Mr. 

 Gould, Mr. Meyer, and my own. 



In the adult bird, the beak, and the naked skin around 



