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Mr. Cordeaux, in his useful little work the ' Birds of the Humber District,' states that 

 " a White Stork (now, as Mr. Richardson, of Beverley, informs me, in the possession of Mr. P. 

 Lawtou, innkeeper, Easington) was shot near Withernsea, on the coast of Holderness, by a man 

 named Crawforth, early in September 1869 ;" but this species is very rare in the north of England 

 or Scotland. Macgillivray states that he only knew of one Scotch-killed Stork, a specimen 

 having been shot in Mainland, Shetland, and subsequently deposited in the University Museum 

 at Edinburgh ; but he further writes that " the Rev. Mr. Smith, Monguhitter, informs me that 

 'during the unusually severe winter of 1837-38, a specimen of this rare bird was shot in a moss 

 in the upper part of the parish of Lomnay. It was nailed to a barn-door, where it speedily went 

 to decay. The people who obtained it compared its red legs to Turkey leather.' " Mr. Robert 

 Gray, who says that he knows of no instance of its occurrence in Western Scotland, writes that 

 " in the statistical account of the parish of Craig, in Forfarshire, prepared by the late Mr. Thomas 

 Mollison, Montrose, and published in 1835, it is stated that a Stork had been seen a short time 

 previously near that town, and was afterwards shot at Ethie House. In addition to this instance, 

 I have to record the occurrence of a very fine specimen which was shot near St. Abb's Head, 

 Berwickshire, in 1848, by a fisherman, who gave it to Mr. William Paterson, of North Berwick. 

 This bird is still carefully preserved in that gentleman's collection. I saw it shortly after its 

 capture, and have since seen it when visiting Mr. Paterson in company with Dr. Turnbull, who 

 takes notice of the specimen in his little work on the birds of East Lothian." 



It has only once been recorded from Ireland. In the Ann. Nat. Hist. July 1846 (p. 70, 

 vol. xviii.), is a letter from "J. R. Harvey, M.D.," who states as follows: — "A fine specimen of 

 the Stork (Ciconia alba, Ray) was shot a few weeks since near Fermoy, in the county of Cork. 

 It appears that three individuals were seen; but this only was procured. It is now in the 

 possession of the Rev. Mr. Bradshaw, of this city (Cork). I am not aware of any authentic 

 record of the species having been met with in Ireland before." 



It does not appear to have occurred in Iceland or on the Faeroes, and in Norway it is only 

 met with as a straggler ; and, according to Mr. Collett, stray flocks of four or five individuals visit 

 that country almost every year, but never remain to breed; indeed they are generally killed, 

 because they are rare. They are generally met with in Southern Norway as far north as Bergen, 

 and but rarely occur in the interior. Nilsson states that " it is tolerably numerous in Southern 

 Sweden, and is found more especially in some of the wooded districts, as, for instance, in a wood 

 near Skabersjo, and a still larger colony inhabit a wood near Orup, in Benestads parish. In the 

 west it occurs near Falkenberg, in Halland : to the eastward it rarely breeds higher than Skane ; 

 but now and then a straggler is met with higher to the north, and it has been seen even as far as 

 Upland. It arrives in Skane early in April, and leaves again late in August. 



In Finland it is rare, but has occurred there on several occasions. Von Nordmann records 

 one occurrence near Borga ; and Nilsson states that it has been met with as far north as at Tornea ; 

 but Professor Malmgren writes to me that this is not the case, as, owing to a misprint, Tornea 

 was put instead of Upsala. In Northern Russia it is rare ; but, according to Sabanaeff, " it occurs 

 in the Governments of Moscow and Jaroslaf, though Bogdanoff does not record it from the Volga. 

 Middendorff, however, states that it is found on the Kama to 59^° N. lat." Mr. Taczanowski 

 writes that "it is common throughout the whole of Poland, but is more numerous on the right 



