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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 ...