48 GRALLATORES. CICONIA. STORK. 
BLACK STORK. 
Ciconza niara, Bellon. 
PLATE XI*. 
Ciconia nigra, Raii Syn. 97. 2.—Will. 211. t. 52.—Shaw’s Zool. 11. 620. 
—Wagler, Syst. Av. 1. sp. 9.—Bechst. 4. 96. 
Ardea nigra, Linn. Syst. 1. 235. 8.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 623.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. 
2. 677. 11. 
Ciconia fusca, Briss. 5. 362. 1. t- 31. young. 
Cicogne noire, Buff: Ois. 7- 271.—Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 562. 
Schwarzer Storck, Meyer, 'Tasschenb. Deut. 2. 348. 
Black Stork, Penn. Arct. Zool. 11. 456.— Will. (Angl.) 286. t. 52.—Lath. 
Syn. 5. 50. 11.—Moné. Trans. of Linn. Soc. v. 12. 19.—Shaw’s Zool. 11. 
620.—Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 97. 11. 
Very rare | THts beautiful species is entitled to a place amongst the 
visitant. British Fauna, from the capture of one (after being slightly 
wounded by shot in the wing), at Westsedgemoor, in So- 
mersetshire, in May 1814. This bird was afterwards pre- 
sented alive to Montagu, who kept it for some years in con- 
finement, and who, availing himself of such an opportu- 
nity, has given a very interesting account of its habits in a 
paper published in the 12th volume of the Transactions of 
the Linnean Society, and to which I refer my readers. From 
that account it appears, when captured, to have been a young 
bird ; and he had the satisfaction of witnessing the various 
changes of plumage it underwent, previous to maturity. 
This species is a periodical visitant in many countries of 
Europe, but its longitudinal range does not extend so far as 
that of Ciconia alba, as it is unknown in Holland. Its lati- 
tudinal flight, however, seems to be even greater, as it passes 
over Sweden in vast flocks on its passage to Siberia and 
the extreme northern continental point. In its natural state, 
it is of a much more timid disposition than the preceding 
species, never, like it, resorting to the neighbourhood of. 
towns or villages. Its abode is generally in the marshy parts 
