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 THE MIGRATION OF THE WHITE STORK. 



BY 



A. LAXDSBOROUGH THOMSON. 

 An important inquiry by the ringing-method has been 

 carried on for several years from the station at Rossitten 

 (East Prussia) into the migration of the White Stork 

 {Ciconia alba) ; in these pages attention has already been 

 drawn to this work and some of its earlier fruits (Vol. II., 

 pp. 366-7 ; III., p. 86), but a paper has recently been 

 published fThienemann, Zool. Jahrbucher, Suppl. II., pp. 

 66.5-686, and plates 16-18) summarizing the results ob- 

 tamed up to date, and this fully deserves a brief account. 

 The case of the Stork is of interest to us apart from the 

 species' slight claims to a place on the " British List," not 

 only on account of its bearing on the general question of 

 migration, but also as an extremely fine example of the 

 successful application of the ringing method. While 

 summarizing the German results we may also refer to some 

 obtained by Mr. Mortensen, of Viborg, Denmark {Dansk 

 ornith. Forenings Tidsskrift, 1907, pp. 147, 155), and by the 

 ornithologists of the Royal Hungarian Ornithological 

 Central-bureau (Schenk, Aquila, Vols. XV., XVI.. XVII.). 

 (1) Autumnal South-easterly Migration through Europe. — 

 The following journeys have been performed by birds 

 marked with Mortensen (the three Danish and the first 

 German cases) and Rossitten rings (the remaining cases). 

 It may be noted that all the records refer to young birds 

 marked in the nest at the localities named first, and 

 recorded from the second localities in the early autumn of 

 the same years. 



Viborg, Denmark, to Diekow, Brandenburg. 



Viborg, Denmark, to Wulkow, near Frankfort-on-the 

 Oder. 



Viborg, Denmark, to Marclowitz, Austrian Silesia. 



Weseram, Brandenburg, to Hermannstadt, south- 

 eastern Hungary'. 



Geschendorf, near Liibeck, to Michelwitz, near 

 Breslau. 



Poppendorf, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, to Tenczinau, 

 Upper Silesia. 



