NESTING OF UGANDA BIRDS 
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NESTING OF UGANDA BIRDS 
By C. F. Belcher 
The following is a tabular list of nests, containing eggs, 
noted in Uganda, during the period from October 1914 to 
June 1918 inclusive : excepting from the middle of March 
to the middle of July 1917, when the hunter was away on 
leave. Few observations were made in October-December 
1914. Were the figures for January and February (four of 
each of which months are included) slightly reduced, and 
those for March and July slightly increased, a better idea 
would perhaps be given of the * curve ’ of the nesting-seasons. 
But the totals, as they stand, form a fair guide for average 
years, and show plainly the connection between the breeding 
of birds and the occurrence of the seasonal rains : the maxima 
being reached in April and November (big and short rains 
respectively), and minima in January and August, which are 
usually the driest months. 
PH A LA CROC OR A CIDJE 
Pfialacrocorax carbo lugubris 
P. africanus 
Anhinga rufa 
CHARADRI1DJE 
Glareola nuchalis 
Charadrius varius varius 
Stephanibyx lugubris 
CEdicnemus vermiculatus 
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J AC AN ID M 
Actophilus africanus . . . — — — 1 — — — 1 
RALLIDJE 
Limnicorax niger . . . — — — — 3 — — — — — 1 — 
Porphyrio madagascarensis . — — 1 — — — — — — — — — 
ARDEIDJE 
Ardetta payesi . . . . — — — — — — — — ■ — — 1 1 
Ardea purpurea . . . — — 9 — — — — — — — — - — 
A. melanocephala . . . — — — — 4 — — — — — — — 
Bubulcus ibis . . . . — — 511 1 — — — — 1 — — 
