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New Series. —VOL. IV. — NO. 4 .—All rights reserved. FEBRUARY, 1906 .



NOTES ON A TRIP IN UGANDA.


By L. M. Seth-Smith, B.A., M.B.O.U.


I propose in these notes to give a rough outline of a trip

I have just made from Jinja to Mbale. Jinja is a small station

on the north coast of Bake Victoria, about eight hours by

steamer from Entebbe. (Perhaps some of our readers were not

aware that there are steamers on the lake, but I can only advise

them to come for a trip on the Uganda Railway and round the

lake on one of the U. R. Company’s Steamers to see for

themselves. They will not regret it.) It is here the White Nile

rises, and about a quarter of a mile down the river from the

lake are the fine Ripon Falls.


The birds round Jinja vary considerably from those at

Entebbe though I was unable to stay long enough to do much

collecting.


One conspicuous little bird which I had not see at Entebbe

but which I found was fairly common all the way to Mbale, was

a Flycatcher* of a light slaty blue colour and with a longish tail,

which, together with its wings, it opened like a fan as it hopped

about the branches in search of food.


Here, as everywhere, are the delightful Wagtails which I

think are the most universally popular birds out here, being

very tame and often coming into one’s room, and also having a

very pretty little song.


I have not yet mentioned where or what Mbale is. It is

the Government station farthest east in the Protectorate, and is

within twenty to thirty miles of Mount Elgon, and from it one



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