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 taken in Palestine, and one Hungarian stork in Syria. 1n the May of the year following than in which it was marked in Prussia one was obtained at Alexandria. In their first. autumn Prussian Starks have been recorded from near Lake Chad in October, from Rosaires on the Blue Nile in the same month, and from the Victoria Nyanza at the end of November. A ringed bird is reported from German East Africa, but full details are wanting, but one shot at Fort Jameson in north-east Rhodesia in December 1907 had only been hatched in Pomerania a few month before; it left the nest on August 19th and began its journey south on or about the 26th. In its first winter a Prussian bird was shot in the Kalahari Desert.

Seven Prussian and about a dozen Hungarian birds have been obtained in winter quarters in the Transvaal, Natal, and other parts of south Africa, and one in German south-west Africa; one, recovered in the July following the summer in which it was marked, was possibly a weakling bird which had failed to make the return journey. Storks which had returned are recorded in their first, second and third summer; most of them having been found within a few miles of their birthplace One bird, marked as a nestling near Brunswick in 1906 was reported in June 1908 from Sorquitten in East Prussia, over 430 miles away. Mr Thomson, from