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CICONIA NIGEA. 



(BLACK STORK.) 



Ciconia fusca, Brisson, Orn. v. p. 362, pi. 31 (1760). 



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



Ardea nigra, L., Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 623 (1788). 



Ardea atra, L., Gm. torn. cit. p. 641 (1788). 



Ardea chrysopelargus, Licht. Rer. Nat. Rar. Hamb. p. 284 (1793). 



Ardea chrysopelargus, Licht., Wagl. Syst. Av. no. 9 (1827). 



Ciconia nigra (L.), Cuv. Regn. Animal, i. p. 513 (1829). 



Ciconia fusca, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 576 (1831). 



Ciconia nigra (L.), C. L. Brehm, torn. cit. p. 576 (1831). 



Melanopelargus, Reichenb. (Ciconia nigra, L.), Syst. Av. pi. 165. f. 453, 454 (1850). 



Melanopelargus niger, Reichenb., Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. ii. p. 105. no. 99 (1857). 



Cigogne noire, French ; schtoarzer Storch, schwarzer JReiher, Aist, German ; Cicogna nera, 

 Cicogna niura, Italian ; Grua, Cicogna senda, Maltese ; sort Stork, Danish ; svart Stork, 

 Swedish. 



Figures notabiles. 



DAubenton, PL Enl. 399 ; Werner, Atlas, Coureurs, pi. 21 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. pi. 41. fig. 2, 

 pi. 44. fig. 3; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. taf. xxxii. ; Sundevall, Sv. Fogl. pi. xlvii. fig. 2; Gould, 

 B. of Eur. pi. 284 ; id. B. of G. B. iv. pi. 31; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 229 ; Schlegel, 

 Vog. Nederl. pi. 200 ; Roux, Orn. Prov. pi. 325 ; Reichenbach, I. c. 



cf ad. corpore supra, collo et pectore superiore nigricanti-fuscis nitore metallico virescente et cupreo resplen- 

 dentibus : dorso, alis et cauda sordidioribus : pectore imo et abdomine albis : rostro, pedibus, mento et 

 orbitis lsevibus rubris : iride fusca. 



2 haud a mari distinguenda. 



Av.juv. nigricanti-fuscus pallidior quaui adultus : capitis et colli plumis albido terminatis, rostro et pedibus 

 fusco-olivaceis. 



Adult Male (Brunswick, 15th May). Head, neck, fore part of the breast, and upper parts generally, black, 

 glossed with metallic reflections ; crown, chin, and nape, and also the lower part of the neck, very richly 

 glossed with coppery and purplish reflections, in some lights becoming violet, rest of the neck glossed 

 with green similar to the shade on a cock's tail ; back, tail, and wings brownish black, more indistinctly 

 glossed with metallic purple, lower part of the breast and remainder of the underparts pure white ; 

 beak, naked skin round the eye,, and legs red, with an orange tinge; iris reddish brown; claws black. 

 Total length 39 inches, culmen 7'4, wing 21-1, tail 9"5, tarsus 7"5, bare portion of tibia 4-5. 



Adult Female. Similar in plumage to the male. 



