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Book/Printed Material Notes on the Game Birds of Kenya and Uganda. Notes on the game birds of Kenya and Uganda

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Title

  • Notes on the Game Birds of Kenya and Uganda.

Other Title

  • Notes on the game birds of Kenya and Uganda

Summary

  • Notes on the Game Birds of Kenya and Uganda is by Sir Frederick John Jackson (1860-1929), a British colonial administrator who spent many years in East Africa. Jackson first went to the region in 1884. He held a number of posts in the East Africa Protectorate (later Kenya), and in 1911 was appointed governor of Uganda, a post in which he served until his retirement in 1917. Jackson devoted his spare time to the study of natural history and became an authority on the habits of birds and their distribution in East Africa. This book covers the seven main classes of game birds found in Kenya and Uganda, comprising about 100 species. These include francolins, quail, and guinea fowl; hemipodes or bustard quail; sandgrouse; pigeons and doves; snipe; bustards; and ducks and geese. The author provides a description of the male and female of each species, with notes on its distribution and the localities in which it is found, as well as additional information about habitat, calls, and advice on how the bird should be hunted. The game birds covered, it should be noted, form only a small portion of the vast avifauna of the two territories. The book is illustrated with 13 colored plates.

Names

  • Jackson, Frederick John, 1860-1929 Author.

Created / Published

  • London : Williams & Norgate, Limited, 1926.

Headings

  • -  Kenya
  • -  Uganda
  • -  1926
  • -  Birds
  • -  Encyclopedias and dictionaries
  • -  Game and game-birds
  • -  Zoology

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "From the Uganda National Fisheries Resources Research Institute. Digitized at the National Library of Uganda with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York."--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 258 pages : color illustrations ; 23 centimeters.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: Oliver Furley, "Jackson, Sir Frederick John (1860--1929)," in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2004).
  • -  Original resource at: National Library of Uganda.
  • -  Content in English.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021667091

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Chicago citation style:

Jackson, Frederick John, Author. Notes on the Game Birds of Kenya and Uganda. London: Williams & Norgate, Limited, 1926. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667091/.

APA citation style:

Jackson, F. J. (1926) Notes on the Game Birds of Kenya and Uganda. London: Williams & Norgate, Limited. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667091/.

MLA citation style:

Jackson, Frederick John, Author. Notes on the Game Birds of Kenya and Uganda. London: Williams & Norgate, Limited, 1926. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667091/>.