468 AFRICAN GAME TRAILS 



BY T. R. BY K. R. 



Ostrich . 2 



Great bustard 4 (i on wing 3 < - \ 



Lesser bustard I i 



Kavirondo crane 2 (on wing) 



Flamingo 4 



Whale-headed stork i i (on wing) 



Marabou i i 



Saddle-billed stork I (on wing) 



Ibis stork 2 (i on wing) 



Pelican I 



Guinea-fowl 5 5 



Francolin i 2 



Fish eagle I 



Vulture 2 



Crocodile I 3 



Monitor I 



Python 3 i 



296 216 

 Grand Total 512 



/ In addition we killed, with the Fox shot-gun, Egyptian 



/ geese, yellow-billed mallards, francolins, spurfowl and sand 



/ grouse for the pot, and certain other birds for specimens. 



Kermit and I kept about a dozen trophies for ourselves; 



otherwise we shot nothing that was not used either as a 



museum specimen or for meat usually for both purposes. 



We were in hunting grounds practically as good as any 



that have ever existed; but we did not kill a tenth, nor a 



hundredth part of what we might have killed had we been 



willing. The mere size of the bag indicates little as to a 



man's prowess as a hunter, and almost nothing as to the 



interest or value of his achievement. 



