622 



GIGANTIC STORK. 



did not seem very particular, as it would eat any 

 kind of offal presented to it. 



Latham asserts that this is a solitary bird, fre- 

 quenting the most sequestered places to breed : it 

 builds on trees, laying two or three eggs, of a dull 

 white, shaded with green, slightly marked with 

 brown spots. Its flesh is unfit for food, being as 

 bad as that of the White Stork. 



GIGANTIC STORK. 



(Ciconia Argala.) 



Ci. cinerea, cajjite colloque nudis, ahdomine humerisque candidi&. 

 Cinereous Stork, with the head and neck naked 3 the abdomen 



and shoulders white. 

 Ardea dubia. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 624. 

 Ardea Argala. Lath. Ind. Orti. 2. 676. 8. 



Gigantic Crane. Lath. Ind. Orri. 4. 45.^ — Lath. Syn, Sup, 232. 

 pi. 115. — Sing. Anim, Biog, 2. 293. 



This gigantic individual is thus described by 

 that able ornithologist, Latham : " Size from five 

 to seven feet in length, and when standing erect 

 it is five feet high. The beak is of a vast size, 

 sharp pointed, compressed on the sides, of a yel- 

 lowish white colour, and opens very far into the 

 head: the nostrils a slit placed high up, near the 

 base : the whole head and neck are naked ; the 

 front is yellow; the fore-part of the neck the 



