STORK. GRALLATORES. CICONIA. 45 
BeEcusTEIN, Cuvier, TemMincx, and WacLeER, but only 
to that group of which Ciconia alba may be considered the 
type. The larger species, viz. Ciconia Marabou, Argala, 
Mycteria, &c. seem to me possessed of characters sufficiently 
distinct to warrant such a separation, a fact indeed admitted 
by the necessity under which these authors have found them- 
selves of subdividing their genus into sections. The Storks 
are inhabitants of marshy districts, and are gregarious. In 
many countries they are migratory, and their journeys are 
performed in immense flocks. Their food is fish, reptiles, 
small mammalia, young birds, &c., and their appetite is very 
voracious. In most countries where they occur, they are 
protected and highly esteemed by the inhabitants for their 
utility in the destruction of noxious reptiles and vermin. 
WHITE OR COMMON STORK. 
Circon14 ALBA, Bellon. 
PLATE XI. 
Ciconia alba, Briss. Orn. 5. 365, 2. pl. 32.—Raii, Syn. 97. A.—Shaw’s Zool. 
11. 617. pl. 48.— Wagler, Syst. Av. 1. sp. 8.—Bechst, Naturg. Deut. 4. 82. 
Ardea Ciconia, Linn. Syst. 1. 235. 7.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 622.—Lath. Ind. 2. 
676. 9. 
Cicogne blanche, Buff: Ois. 7. 253. t- 12.— Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 560. 
Weisser Storch, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 2. 345 
White Stork, Penn. Art. Zool. 2. 455.—Will. (Angl.) 286. pl. 52.—Lath. 
Syn. 5. 49.—/d. Sup. 234.—Mont. Ornith. Dict. and Sup.—Shaw’s Zool. 
11. 617. pl. 48.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 2. 32.—Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 96. 
sp. 10. 
Tue rare occurrence of the Stork in Britain, contrasted Rare visi- 
with the abundance in which it is found on the opposite con- ie 
tinental coast, in Holland and France, is a remarkable in- 
stance of the laws which direct the migrations of birds, and 
confine them within certain limits. And this appears the 
more striking, when we know that its polar, or vernal, mi- 
gration extends to a higher parallel of northern latitude than 
our own, as it regularly visits and breeds in Sweden, and 
