121 Recently published Ornithological J forks. 



of crowned cranes, the solitary stalking secretary-bird, the 

 ■wheeling kites, the griffon-vultures, the black and white 

 Egyptian vultures with yellow beaks and yellow legs, the 

 gorgeous, glossy starlings, with their plumage of iridescent 

 blue-green and copper-red, the brightly coloured or extrava- 

 gantly plumed widow-finches and weaver-birds are all 

 familiar objects in the landscapes of the Eastern Province. 

 The grey parrots, and the many richly plumed plantain- 

 eaters and turacos in the forests of the Central, Western, 

 and Uganda Provinces, the screaming fish-eagles, the brown 

 Necrosyrtes vultures, the grey Spizaetus eagles, and the 

 handsome bataleur 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 daytime 

 as one traverses the forests and the grassy down-country 

 in Uganda, Toro, Busoga, and Elgon. The shores of the 

 Victoria Nyanza and of the other lakes, the marshes and 

 back-waters of the Nile, are frequented by countless water- 

 birds, by whale-headed storks and saddle-billed storks, by 

 herons of gigantic size or minute rail-like form — herons 

 that are snow-white in many species, or dark slaty blue or 

 fawn-colour; by spur- winged geese, Egyptian geese, knob- 

 nosed ducks, and the exquisite little 'pygmy goose'; by 

 pelicans, cormorants, and darters, to name only a few 

 among the more prominent types/'' 



A " tentative list " of the birds hitherto recorded from 

 the Uganda Protectorate, prepared by Mr. Charles Chubb, 

 and arranged according to the classification of the new r 

 ' Hand-list/ contains the names of 771 species, to which 

 many more will, no doubt, have to be added. 



20. Legge on the Birds of Tasmania. 



[Notes on the Birds of Tasmania : Systematic List of Tasmaniati 

 Birds. By Col. W. V. Legge, F.L.S., &c. Papers & Proc. It. Sue. 

 Tasmania, 1900-1901, p. 90.] 



Our old friend Col. Legge, President of the Australasian 

 Ornithologists' Union, contributes a revised systematic list 

 of the birds of the Colonv in which he now resides to 



