72 THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS 



taken in Palestine, and one Hungarian stork in Syria. 

 In the May of the year following that in which it 

 was marked in Prussia one was obtained at Alex- 

 andria. In their first autumn Prussian storks 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 months 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 



