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CICONIA ALBA. 



(WHITE STORK.) 



Ardea ciconia, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 235 (1766). 



he Cigogne, Buff. Ois. viii. p. 117 (1783). 



Ciconia alba, Bechst. Naturg. Deutschl. iii. p. 41 (1793). 



Ciconia albescens, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 574 (1831). 



Ciconia nivea, Brehm, torn. cit. p. 574 (1831). 



Ciconia Candida, Brehm, torn. cit. p. 575 (1831). 



Ciconia major, Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 289. 



Cigogne, French ; Ciguena, Spanish ; Cegonha, Portuguese ; Cicogna, Italian ; Storch, German ; 

 Stork, Danish and Swedish ; Bocian, Polish ; Aist, Kussian ; Legleh, Tartar ; Belaredj, 

 Bou-laMaJc, BouchekchacJc, Arabic. 



Figures notabiles. 



Buff. PI. Enl. pi. 866; Werner, Atlas, Coureurs, pi. 20; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. pi. 228. 

 figs. 1 & 2; Zool. Gart. 1864, pi. 399 (nestling); Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 283; Sundevall, 

 Svensk. Fogl. pi. 47. fig. 1 ; Frisch, Vog. Eur. pi. 41. fig. 3. 



Ad. albus : remigibus, tectricibus alarum majoribus scapularibusque nigerrimis : regione ophthalmicfl mentoque 

 nudis, ilia nigra, hoc rubro, ad basin rostri nigro : rostro pedibusque rubris : iride brunnea. 



Juv. adulto similis, sed rostro nigricante, pedibus saturate rubris. 



Adult Male. Pure white, excepting the quills, scapulars, and larger wing-coverts, which are glossy black ; 

 secondaries washed with grey on the outer web ; bare skin round the eye black ; chin naked, in colour 

 reddish, but black at the immediate base of the bill ; beak and legs coral-red ; iris brown. Total length 

 40 inches, culmen 7 - 0, wing 22'5, tail 9 - 0, tarsus 89. 



Female. Differs from the male merely in being somewhat smaller in size. 



Young. Similar to the adult bird, but has the beak blackish and the legs dull reddish. 



The White Stork inhabits Central and Southern Europe and Africa, and is met with in Persia, 

 India, and Japan. It but rarely visits our islands, at irregular periods, those occurring here 

 being probably stragglers driven to us through stress of weather. Yarrell writes that "Dr. Edward 

 Moore, on the authority of Mr. Gosling, says that three birds have been obtained in Devonshire. 

 One was killed in Hampshire in 1808, by the gamekeeper of John Guitton, Esq., of Little Park, 

 near Wickham. One has been killed near Salisbury. One bird, out of a flock of four, was shot 

 in Oxfordshire. Two have been killed in Kent ; one of them in Eomney Marsh, the second near 



