Title: An illustrated manual of British birds
Identifier: cu31924000047815 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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CICONIIDiE. 387
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THE WHITE STORK. Cic6nia Alba, Bechstein. It does not appear that the White Stork has ever been more than an irregular wanderer to the British Islands; and as long ago as 1544 Dr. William Turner, writing at Cologne, expressed his surprise that a bird so common in Germany should be unknown in England. Later, it was considered by Merrett, Willughby and Ray a very rare visitor, but Sir Thomas Browne remarked on its occurrence in the fens and marshes of Norfolk, where, from the proximity of Holland—in which the species has long been protected—more examples have been obtained than in all the rest of Great Britain. An adult female, shot about May 17th 1861 at Woodbastwick, contained an egg ready for exclusion, which was cracked by the fall of the bird ; and more than thirty specimens have been recorded from East Anglia, chiefly in the spring. Several have been noticed from Northamptonshire southward, and on April 23rd 1884 a flock of six passed over the town of Newbury in Berkshire, flying in a north- H H 2

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