. A history of British birds . eeding-season Storks keep up a constant clap-pering with their bills, and this sound may frequently beheard proceeding from a number of birds circling in the airat such a height as to be almost invisible. The adult bird has the beak red; the bare skin aroundthe eye black; the irides brown ; the whole of the plumagewhite, except the greater wing-coverts, the primary quill-feathers, secondaries, and tertials, which are black; legsand toes red; the claws brown. The whole length is three feet six or eight inches. Fromthe carpal joint to the end of the primaries, twen
. A history of British birds . eeding-season Storks keep up a constant clap-pering with their bills, and this sound may frequently beheard proceeding from a number of birds circling in the airat such a height as to be almost invisible. The adult bird has the beak red; the bare skin aroundthe eye black; the irides brown ; the whole of the plumagewhite, except the greater wing-coverts, the primary quill-feathers, secondaries, and tertials, which are black; legsand toes red; the claws brown. The whole length is three feet six or eight inches. Fromthe carpal joint to the end of the primaries, twenty-threeinches. Young birds have the quill-feathers dull black; the beakand legs brownish-red. The nestling is covered with agreyish-white down, and is well figured in the Birds ofGreat Britain by the late Mr. Gould, who states that heprocured it from Prof. Kaup of Darmstadt, after endeavour-ing in vain to obtain a specimen from any of his numerousGerman and Dutch correspondents. HERODIONES. BLACK STOEK. 225CICONIIDjE. ^rt>. CicoNiA NiGKA (Linnseus*). THE BLACK STORK. Ciconia nigra. The first occurrence of the Black Stork in a wild statein this country was made known by Montagu, in a paperread before the Linnean Society on the 2nd of May, bird was captured on West Sedgemoor, adjoiningthe parish of Stoke St. Gregory, Somersetshire, on the 13thof May, 1814, by means of a slight shot-wound in the wing, * Ardea nigra, Linnajus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 235 (1766). VOL. IV. a ft 226 crcoNiiD^. which did not break the bone, and the bird lived in hispossession more than twelve months, in excellent example is still preserved in the British that time the species has been observed on severaloccasions. Mr. Stevenson found in Mr. Joseph ClarkesMS. notes on rare birds at Yarmouth, a record that threeBlack Storks were followed in Norfolk for some days in theyear 1823; and one, shot at Otley, in Suffolk, in October1832, is stated by the late Rev. J. M
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