BLACK STORK. 



CICONIA NIGRA (Linn.). 



Ardea nigra, Linn. S. N. i. p. 235 (1766). 

 Ciconia nigra, Naum. ix. p. 279 ; Macg. iv. p. 485 ; Hewitson, 

 ii. p. 319 ; Yarr. ed. 4, iv. p. 225 ; Dresser, vi. p. 309. 



Cigogne noire, French ; Schwarzer Storch, German ; 

 Cigiieua negra, Spanish. 



My personal acquaintance with this species in a wild 

 state is confined to a distant sight of a solitary indi- 

 vidual amongst a vast congregation of White Storks on 

 the lower marshes of the Guadalquivir in the early 

 summer of 1872, so that the little that I shall say of 

 it is taken from the works of other authors. The Black 

 Stork is a rare straggler to our country ; but in the 

 4th edition of ' Yarrell ' is said to breed sparingly in the 

 south of Sweden, Denmark, some of the northern and 

 eastern provinces of the German Empire, Poland, 

 Central and Southern Prussia, the Danubian provinces, 

 and Turkey ; the editor adds that it also nests in 

 Spain, and of this fact I have very recently received 

 confirmatory evidence. 



This bird differs from the White Stork in shunning 



