OF X0RTH17J1JBEELAKD A:SD DXJEHAM. 129 



p. 174, by T. H. Gibb, of Alnwick, according to whom tbe speci- 

 men is an immature female, and was shot on the 24th of JN'oyem- 

 ber, near to the couflnencc of the Cawledge Burn with the Aln. 



F.uiiLY. CICOMID^, Bonaparte. 



128. CICONIA, Bri^^son. 



48. Stoek. C. alba, Willuc/hhi/. 



Ciconia aiha, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, II., 32. 

 ,, Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 2, II., 554. 



A casual A-isitant. In "Wallis's "History of ]!^orthumberland," 

 Yol. I., p. 336, it stated that a White Stork "was killed near 

 Chollerford Bridge, in the beginning of the year 1766 ;" and the 

 description there given of the specimen, leaves no doubt as to the 

 species. 



In May, 1866, I saw an example of the Stork at Prestwick 

 Car ; it was flying, at a considerable elevation, towards where I 

 stood, accompanied by a fi'iend. "We concealed ourselves amidst 

 the heather : the biixl passed directly over our heads. I could 

 distinctly see, aided by a small telescope, the outstretched head, 

 the red of the beak and legs, and the black and white of the 

 plumage. It settled by the margin of the Black Pool, in about 

 one foot depth of water, at no great distance from where we lay 

 concealed, and I had a good opportunity of examining it through 

 my glass. It remained a few minutes, and then flew off in an 

 easterly direction. 



49. Black Stoek. C. nigea, Gesner. 



Ciconia nigra, Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 2, II., 558. 

 ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Great Britain, Part XX. 



A casual visitant. A specimen is recorded as having occurred 

 near Hartlepool, August, 1852, by Christy Horsfall, in "The 

 Zoologist," 1862, p. 8196. 



