CICONIIDE, 389 
THE BLACK STORK. 
Ciconia nficRa (Linneus). 
The Black Stork is a far rarer visitor to England than its con- 
gener, and there is no authentic record of its occurrence in 
Scotland or Ireland. In May 1814 a bird, disabled by a slight 
shot-wound, was captured on West Sedgemoor, Somersetshire, and 
lived in the possession of Montagu for more than twelve months ; 
it is now in the British Museum. Since that time examples have 
been obtained, at long intervals, between the months of May and 
November, in the Scilly Islands (1), Devon (1), Dorset (2), Kent (2), 
Middlesex (1), Oxfordshire (1), Essex (1), Suffolk (1), Norfolk (2), 
Yorkshire (1), and Durham (1). 
This species is only a straggler to Norway ; but it breeds sparingly 
in the forests of the south of Sweden, Denmark, Brunswick, Hanover, 
Pomerania, East Prussia and some other parts of Germany ; also 
in Poland, Central and Southern Russia, the Danubian Provinces, 
Turkey and Spain. In the rest of Europe it occurs as a migrant, 
