BLACK STORK. 
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GRALLA TORES. 
A REEIBJE. 
BLACK STOBEL 
ClCONIA NIGRA. 
PLATE LXXXIV. FIG. II. 
The Black Stork, though met with here and there, 
through most of the countries of Europe, appears to he 
nowhere common. It is known to breed occasionally in 
some of the German States. Mr. Sewell, who lives near 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has one alive, which he received 
when young, taken from the nest near Rostock in the 
Bucliy of Mecklenberg. 
Whilst the commoner bird seeks the society of man, 
and repairs to towns and villages to rear its young ones, 
the Black Stork betakes itself to the distant forest, wher¬ 
ever it is interspersed with streams and pools of water or 
marshy flats. There, towards the end of April, it builds 
its nest in solitude near the top of one of the highest trees 
of the forest; for the most part upon that of the pine tree. 
The nest, though large, is less than that of the other 
species; its foundation of sticks is rendered more firm 
and stable by the addition of sods of earth, the remain¬ 
der of the nest being completed with finer sticks. 
The eggs are four in number, and, like those of the white 
stork, but smaller. 
