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also empty, probably robbed, as was a Buzzard's nest elose 

 to it. 



Tliere was a second nest of tlie Black Stork not \ery 

 far from the first, belonging to the same pair of birds. This 

 also was empty ; and our theory was that, the first clutch 

 of eggs having been taken, the birds had nested again, but 

 liad not yet liad time to lay again. This second nest was 



Xest of Black Stork yCiconia nigra). 



half-way up a \ev\ large beech, in a fork on the main trunk. 

 The first nest was at the extremity of some horizontal boughs 

 of a small beecli-tree, and was not more than twenty feet 

 from the ground, overhanging the hollow of a hillside. The 

 ground was covered with a russet layer of last year's leaves, 

 and the trees were just beginning to open out into leaf, 

 and were clothed sparingly in the brightest of green. 



