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About a dozen Hungarian Storks have been obtained in 

 the same region, one of them in July of the summer 

 following that of its marking. A Hungarian Stork has 

 ^Iso been obtained as far west as German south-west 

 Africa. 



(4) Return to Summer-quarters. — We may summarize 

 the records of Storks found in Europe in summers subse- 

 -quent to that of their marking, as follows, all the records 

 of which we have details being for German birds, but there 

 ^re also some similar Hungarian cases : 



Distance from Birthplace. Season. 



3 English miles (approx.) . . Next Summer. 



9 



60 



17 



437 



9 



19 



Second Summer after. 



Third 



A return to the summer-quarters is thus obviously the 

 rule, but we must note the existence of the exception : 

 the Stork bom and marked near Brunswick in 1906, and 

 reported on June 30th, 1908, from Sorquitten in east 

 Prussia. As already stated, the localities are about 437 

 miles apart ; being nearly in the same latitude they are 

 obviously on quite different lines of flight. This record, 

 and such other exceptions as the records from the Lake 

 €had region and German south-west Africa, mdicate the 

 necessity for further study of a case which might other- 

 wise be considered as nearly complete. Still more is this 

 the case with the record which forms our final section, and 

 which opens up an entirely fresh line of inquiry : 



(5) Autumnal South-ivesterly Migration through Europe. 

 — In 1910 the Rossitten Stork-marking area was extended 

 into Holland and western Germany. No results have as 

 yet been published, but while at Rossitten last September 

 we heard of the first " return " from Dr. Thienemann, 

 as it came to hand : marked near Cassel in western 

 ■Germany that summer, the bird in question had just been 

 recorded from the Barcelona district of Spain ! That a 

 Stork hatched in western Germany should take such a 

 totally different hne of flight from those hatched in Den- 



