. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Vol. 85 72 Bulletin Nest of Saddle-bill Stork in Uganda on Euphorbia dawei. single, straight stem crowned with a rounded head of angular branches which could be overlooked from the high bank and from which the sitting bird was photographed. Unfortunately, although the eggs were on the point of hatching, the bird deserted and the abandoned eggs were collected on 11th June, they measured x , x and x mm. and were successfully cleaned by the finder who neatly cut out—how I do not know—a circular piece of shell som
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Vol. 85 72 Bulletin Nest of Saddle-bill Stork in Uganda on Euphorbia dawei. single, straight stem crowned with a rounded head of angular branches which could be overlooked from the high bank and from which the sitting bird was photographed. Unfortunately, although the eggs were on the point of hatching, the bird deserted and the abandoned eggs were collected on 11th June, they measured x , x and x mm. and were successfully cleaned by the finder who neatly cut out—how I do not know—a circular piece of shell some 15 mm. in diameter (which was eventually replaced), thus enabling the chick to be removed. From south western, scuthern and eastern Uganda, and from Uganda's Lake Victoria region I have no reliable information about the breeding season. KENYA. J. G. Williams (1963) calls this stork rare in Kenya, "except at Amboseli National Reserve where several pairs ; He has never seen a nest there but suggests that the breeding season may be in May and June. A nestling has been obtained from the general region of Amboseli in early July. TANGANYIKA (now TANZANIA). In the Western Serengeti region Myles Turner (in lift.) on 27th June 1962 found a Saddle-bill nest high up (about 60 feet) on top of a 'yellow' acacia thorn tree, Acacia xanthophloea on the Upper Seronera river. The large construction of coarse twigs and sticks was very similar to a vulture nest. It contained three large nestlings which were stretching and testing their wings. To do this they would stand up facing into the wind and jump up to about two feet in the air flapping, with wings outstretched. According to Bannerman (1957) the nestlings of the White Stork, Ciconia c. ciconia (Linn.) com- mence to exercise their wings when three weeks old and continue doing so until they start to fly when 58 to 67 days old, so in the case of the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that
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