BLACK STORK. 
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body, the wings, and the tail, are dushy, with hues 
of purple and greenish : the under parts of the 
breast and the belly are pure white : the beak, the 
naked skin about the eyes, and throat, are deep 
red-crimson ; the irides are brown : the legs are 
deep red. The young have the beak, the naked 
skin round the eyes, that on the throat, as also the 
legs, of an olive-green : the head and neck are 
rufous brown, edged with whitish : the body, the 
wings, and the tail, are dusky brown, slightly tinged 
with bluish and green. 
This species inhabits many parts of Europe, but 
is not so common as the white : it is most abundant 
in Poland, Lithuania, Prussia, Switzerland, and 
Turkey ; rarer in Germany and Prance, and never 
found in Holland : one specimen has been cap- 
tured in England ; this was taken on a moor in 
Somersetshire, on the 13th of May, 1814, and is 
now in the British Museum. Several particulars 
of this individual are given by Montagu in the 
twelfth volume of theLinnean Transactions. Upon 
its first capture it made but little resistance, and 
on the following day ate some eels that had been 
placed near it : it frequently rested upon one leg, 
and if alarmed, particularly by the approach of a 
dog, it made a snapping noise v/ith the beak like 
the White Stork. It soon became docile, and 
would follow its feeder for a favourite morsel, an 
eel. When hungry it used to rest its whole leg 
upon the ground, and forcibly blow the air from 
its lungs. It frequently waded up to its belly into 
a pond in search of food, in the choice of which it 
