48 HERON. 



*** STORKS, WITH NAKED ORBITS. 



14.— WHITE STORK. 



Ardea Ciconia, Ind. Orn. ii. 676. Lin. i. 235. Faun, suec. No. 162. Grin. Lin. \. 622. 



Scop. i. No. 123. Frisch, t. 196. BritM. No. 154. Midler, p. 22. Faun. arag. 



p. 76. fla«, 97. A. 1. Will. 210. t. 52. Schcef. t. 26. Bris. v. 365. t. 32. 



Id. 8vo. ii. 305. jK7em, ^«. 125. /rf. Ou. 34. t. 17. f. 2. Borowsk. iii. 78. 1. 



i*eM». He/w. It. Poseg. p. 25. Gerin.iv. t. 434. Gesra. ^4y. pi. in p. 230. Tern. 



Man. d'Orn. 358. Id. Ed. ii. 561. 

 Cicogne blanche, Buf. vii. 253. pi. 12. PL enl. 866. Hist. Prov. i. p. 348. Voy. en 



Barb. 276. Robert, Ic. pi. 7. & 13. Johnst. Av. pi. 50. f. 1. 2. 

 Dei- weisse Storch, Bechst. Deutsch. iii. s. 48. Schmid, Vog. p. 116. t. 101. 

 White Stork, Gen. Styw. v. 47. Id. Sup. 234. Arct. Zool. ii. 455. C. Hasselq. Voy. 



p. 32. JFi//, Engl. 286. pi. 52. ^/6£», ii. pi. 64. Ives, Voy. pp. 299. 307. 



Fryer, Trav. 251. Russ. Alep. 69. Bewick, ii, p. 32. Lewin, iv. pi. 144. 



Walcot, Birds, ii. pi. 125. On*. Dicf. # Supp. Wood's Zoogr. i. p. 519. pi. 23. 



LENGTH three feet three inches. Bill seven inches and three 

 quarters long, and of a fine red colour; the plumage in general 

 white, except the orbits of the eyes, which are bare, and blackish ; 

 some of the scapulars, the greater wing coverts, and quills, are black ; 

 the skin, legs, and bare part of the thighs are red.* There is little 

 or no difference in the sexes. 



This familiar species inhabits various parts of the Old Continent, 

 but avoiding alike the extremes of heat and cold, being never met 

 with between the Tropics, or seen, except very rarely, more north 

 than Sweden, or in Russia, beyond the 58th degree : it never fre- 

 quents Siberia, though sometimes seen in Bucharia, where it makes 



* The bill and legs are sometimes brown ; such a Variety I once saw in the collection 

 of that well-informed Naturalist, the late Marmaduke Tunstall, Esq. to whom I owe many- 

 communications in Ornithology. 



