310 THE ODYSSEY OF AN ANIMAL COLLECTOR 
1 Marsh Mongoose 
1 Spotted Hyena 
2 Black-backed Jackals 
5 Bat-eared Foxes 
2 Kenya Ground Squirrels 
3 Kenya Crested Porcupines 
1 Crested Bush Rat 
2 Rock Hyraxes 
1 Grevy’s Zebra 
t Black Rhinoceros 
1 Cape Buffalo 
t duiker 
3 Kenya Oribi 
2 Masai Ostriches 
3 East African Bare-throated 
Francolins 
2 Vulturine Guinea-fowl 
2 Uganda Crested Guinea-fowl 
6 Kenya Crested Guinea-fowl 
12 Common Quail 
2 Gray-necked Crowned Cranes 
2 Secretary Birds 
t kestrel 
1 Woodford’s Owl 
2 Black Crakes 
2 Striated Colies 
4 Ground Hornbills 
8 Superb Glossy Starlings 
7 Green Glossy Starlings 
11 Amethyst Starlings 
2 Wattled Starlings 
2 African pythons 
1 Northern or Defassa Water- 
buck 
1 Impala Antelope 
1 Thompson’s Gazelle 
3 Lord Delamere’s Bush Bucks 
1 Lesser Kudu 
2 Baringo Giraffes 
1 Cotton’s Giraffe 
3 Reticulated Giraffes 
2 Kenya Bush Pigs 
I wart-hog 
3, antbears 
4 Spot-backed Weavers 
1 Chestnut Weaver 
2 Red-billed Weavers 
1 Red-headed Weaver 
12 Gray-headed Social Weavers 
4 Chestnut Sparrows 
1 Green Singing Finch 
2 Streaky Seed-eaters 
6 Jackson’s Whydahs 
2 Red-naped Whydahs 
2 Purple Indigo-finches 
5 Bronze-wing Manakins 
17 Kenya Firefinches 
13 Masai Waxbills 
3 Purple Grenadier Waxbills 
5 Kenya Red-rumped Waxbills 
t Melba Finch 
Finding a ship to transport the animals home was now becom- 
ing a race against time, as with everything on the open deck I had 
to arrive in England by the autumn if I was to avoid losses 
through cold. Things came to such a pass that there was only one 
boat with sufficient space that could get me home before the 
