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BLACK STORK. 
Ciconia nigra , 
Ardca nigra , 
Fleming. Selby. 
Montagu. 
Ciconia —A Stork. 
Nigra— Black. 
The Black Stork is found in greater or less numbers in 
various countries of Europe, being not uncommon in Swit¬ 
zerland and some parts of Germany, abundant in Hungary 
and Poland, and very rare in France and Holland. It travels 
northwards as far as Finland, Sweden, and Russia, and is 
found also in Italy, in the salt marshes, and in Turkey. 
In Asia it occurs likewise in Siberia, and to the extreme 
north, as well as Persia, Syria, Ceylon, Java, and the neigh¬ 
bourhood of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea; and 
likewise in Africa, at the Cape of Good Hope, and from 
thence to the Mediterranean and Madeira. Also in America, 
both on the continent and the Islands of the West Indies— 
St. Domingo and Martinique. 
The following are the examples of this species that have 
occurred in England:—One, recorded by Colonel Montagu, 
shot on Sedge Moor, so fatal to other lives, in the parish of 
Stoke St. Gregory, Somersetshire, on the 13th. of May, 1814; 
one on the River Tamar, in Devonshire, in 1831; one shot in 
October, 1832, in the parish of Otley, near Ipswich, Suffolk; 
and one in the Isle of Purbeck, near Poole, Dorsetshire, on 
the 22nd. of November, 1839. One also in Yorkshire, on 
Market Weighton Common, in the East-Riding, by Mr. 
Wake, about the 29th. of October, 1852, as recorded in ‘The 
Naturalist,’ volume iii., page 19, by my brother, Beverley R. 
Morris, Esq. Another was killed on the Weald of Kent a 
few years since, as Mr. Chaffey, of Dodington, has been good 
enough to inform me. 
