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increasing', there is no reason why we should not open 

 up a new source of supply for the foreign bird market. 



The notes on the migration Eastward, ami change of 

 colour, of the Grey Parrot are most interesting. Perhaps 

 some of our readers have already seen a specimen 

 differing from the usual type, and can give fuller 

 particulars. 



(Extract) . "The Uganda Protectorate is ver3'ricli in 

 birds. In no part of Africa I have ever visited has bird 

 life seemed so abundant and so omnipresent. The least 

 observant Kuropean in the Rift Valley must be conscious 

 of the Black Chats, with white patches on their wings, 

 hopping about the settlements. The Flamingoes on 

 Ivakes Naivasha and Hannington, the colleges of 

 Marabout vStorks, the companies of Crown Cranes, 

 the solitary Secretary-bird, the wheeling Kites, the 

 Griffon Vulture, the black and white Egyptian Vultures 

 with 3^ellow beaks and legs, the gorgeous Glossy 

 Starlings w'ith their plumage of iridescent blue-green 

 and copper-red, the brightly-coloured or extravagantly- 

 plumed Widow - finches and Weaver - birds, are all 

 familiar objects in the landscape of the Eastern 

 province {of Uganda). 



"The Grey Parrots and the many richly -plumed 

 Plantain -eaters and Touracos in the forests of the 

 Central Western and Uganda Provinces, the screaming- 

 Fish Eagles, the Brown Vulture, the Gre}- and the liand- 

 some Bateleur and Black-crested Eagles, the Sun-birds, 

 Barbets, green Parrots, green Pigeons, blue and mauve 

 Rollers, are seldom absent from one's sight in the day- 

 time as one traverses the forests and grassy down 

 country in Uganda, Toro, Busoga, and Elgon. 



" Of the Widow-finches, the most extravagant of all 

 these birds in the tail is Chera progne. This bird is 

 found in parts of South Africa, and reappears, strange 

 to say, in the North - Eastern part of the Uganda 

 Protectorate. In this bird, about the size of a Thrush, 

 not only are the plumes of the tail such as would be 



