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THE WHITE STOEK, 
Common Stork. 
Ciconia alhaj Brisson, 
Afdea ciconia, Linn. 
Has been once procured. 
Mr. Yarrell having remarked, in his History of British Birds 
(1843), that the stork ^^is said to have been killed in Ireland,” I 
applied to him for further information, and his notes were kindly 
referred to, but no authority for the statement could then be 
found. The only authentic record of which I am aware is the 
following subsequent one by Dr. Harvey of Cork, dated June 17, 
1846 A fine specimen of the white stork (Ciconia alha, Eay) 
was shot about three weeks since in the neighbourhood of Eermoy, 
in the county of Cork. I am informed that three were seen ; but 
this individual only was procured. It is now in the possession of 
the Eev. Mr. Bradshaw of this city.” * 
The specimen was afterwards added to Dr. Harvey’s collection. 
One of these birds was likewise seen in the spring of 1846 near 
Driffield, Yorkshire.! The stork is known only as a very rare 
visitant to England, and chiefiy about the period of its migratory 
movement northward in spring Scandinavia is frequented by it as 
a breeding haunt. One is recorded to have been obtained on the 
mainland of Scotland, and two in Shetland. J Ireland lies too far 
west to be visited by this species, except on an extraordinary 
occasion. 
A person going direct, as I have done, from England to Holland, 
and seeing numbers of storks before landing in the latter country, 
is much struck with the fact of their absence from the opposite 
* Ann, Nat. Hist. July 1846, (p. 70, vol. xviii.) ; and Zoologist for same month, 
(p. 1395.) 
t Rev. F. 0. Morris in Zoologist, (vol. iv. p. 1501.) 
t Thos. M. Grant, Esq. in Yarrell’s British Birds. 
