Recently published Ornithological Works. 123 



it contains a great deal about birds and should be studied by 

 every ornithologist. It is the best illustrated book that we 

 have ever seen, containing more than 500 text-figures taken 

 from drawings and photographs by the author and his friends, 

 besides 48 fully coloured plates prepared by the author, and 

 an instructive set of maps. INI any of the coloured plates 

 illustrate characteristic forms of African bird-life, such as 

 Touracos, Barbets, Baheniceps, Nettapus, and Helotarms. 

 They are somewhat artistic in treatment, no doubt, but give 

 a much better idea of the appearance of such remarkable 

 forms to the field-naturalist than would be obtained from 

 plates prepared from stuffed specimens. 



In the course of his first six chapters the author pilots 

 his readers over one of the most diversified portions of 

 tropical Africa, from the low wastes of the Eastern Province 

 across the Mau Plateau to snowy Ruwenzori and the great 

 Congo Forest. Frequent allusions to birds and their ways 

 will be found throughout, both in the text and in the 

 figures. The account of the climb up Ruwenzori is of the 

 greatest interest. Sir Harry believes that the highest point 

 of this massive range of mountains will be found to reach to 

 an altitude of nearly 20,000 feet, and to be the highest land 

 in Africa. Here is a fine field for the exploring naturalist, 

 as yet almost untouched ! 



The last chapter of the first volume of Sir Harry's work 

 is devoted to a general sketch of the zoology of Uganda. 

 The avifauna of Uganda is graphically described as follows : — 



" The Uganda Protectorate is very rich in birds. In no 

 other part of Africa that I have ever visited has bird-life 

 seemed so abundant and so omni-present. In attempting to 

 describe the landscape in the first chapters of this book, it 

 lias been constantly necessary to refer to the bird-clement in 

 the scenery. The least observant European sojourner in the 

 Rift A r alley must be conscious of the black chats with white 

 patches on their wings, hopping about the settlements, 

 courting, singing, fluttering their wings, and turning back 

 their tails. The flamingos on Lakes Naivasba and II an- 

 nington, the colleges of marabou storks, the companies 



