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BLACK STORK.
Cioonia nigra (Linn.').
BLACK STOEK.
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;
Cigiiena negra, Spanish.
My personal acquaintance witli this species in a wild
state is confined to a distant sight of a solitary individual
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