CICONIA. — I'LATALEA. 199 



Ciconia nigra. Black St 



roEK. 



Ardea nigra Linmeus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 1-42 : 

 Sweden. 



Ciconia nigra (Linn.) ■ B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 112 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. 1898, p. 303 ; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 389. 



Nigra = black. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — An Occasional Visitor. 

 About twenty occurrences have been recorded in England : 

 one from Durham and two from Yorkshire, and the re- 

 mainder from the more southern counties and the Scilly 

 Islands, 



General Distribution. — The Black Stork breeds in Europe 

 and Asia, ranging from southern Sweden and central Russia 

 eastwards across Siberia, south of about b.>° N. latitude, to 

 Mongolia, southwards to Spain, Turkey, Palestine, Persia, 

 Turkestan, and north China. In winter it visits Africa, 

 ranging southward.s to the Cape and to India. 



Suborder FLATALE^. 

 Family PLATALEID^. 

 Genus 'P'LA.I^k'L'EiK-Unnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 139. 

 Type : P. leucorodia Linn. 



Platalca = the Spoonbill, in Cicero, N.D. ii. 49, 124; Pldtea, in Pliny, 

 H. N. X. 40, 56 ; probably from irXarvs = broad. 



Platalea leucorodia. Spoonbill. 



Platalea leucorodia Linvceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 139 : 



Sweden. 



Platalea leucorodia Linn. ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 113 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvi. 1889, p. 44 ; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd cd. 1899, p. 393. 



