THE BIRDS OF KENYA COLONY AND THE UGANDA PROTECTORATE

Completed and edited by W.L. Sclater.

First edition. 3 volumes, 1592 pages - continuous pagination, folding map, 24 colour plates reproduced from paintings by George Lodge, 241 black & white figures from drawings by Grönvold, original black cloth has been varnished, tilted gilt on the spines, lightly insect scarred on the covers, top edges gilt, other edges uncut, a very good set.

Frederick John Jackson (1860–1929) was an English administrator, explorer and ornithologist. Jackson joined the British Ornithologists' Union in 1888. That year a paper by Jackson and Captain Shelley was published describing birds collected during his 1884–1886 trip to Africa. He collected many specimens in an 1898–1891 expedition to Uganda, and descriptions of this collection were published in a five-part paper in the Ibis in 1891–1892. Other papers described new species appeared in the Ibis and other journals between 1890 and 1917. Jackson was elected President of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society in 1910. He wrote nine of the nineteen chapters of Big Game Shooting, published in 1894. After retiring, he worked on a complete history of the Birds of East Africa and Uganda, which was unpublished when he died in 1929. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_John_Jackson

In 1896, W L Sclater became Director of the South African Museum at Cape Town, where he wrote most of what had been Stark's" Birds of South Africa." From 1909 until his death Sclater worked at the British Museum, specializing for many years on African birds. Anyone who had interest in this group inevitably turned to Sclater for help, either by letter, or personally, when they were in London. He was one of those men who have many offices and many interests, but are always able to give time and a welcome. He performed a most valuable service when he compiled the" Systema Avium Aethiopicarum" (1924-1930), a work that has provided a basis for so much that has been done since. Later, on the death of Sir Frederick Jackson, he was asked to complete the unfinished" Birds of Kenya Colony and the Uganda Protectorate," by which he will be most generally known in East Africa. In his unobtrusive way he contributed a great deal to this book as he had to Stark's. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/content/part/EANHS/XIX_No.%201___2_85___86__73_1946_Sclater_OwenObit.pdf