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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF WEDNESDAY MORNING BIRD-WALKS 
The Society's Wednesday Morning Birdwalks began In 1971 This means more than 1 300 outings to look 
at Birds overthe years! At the 25lh anniversary last year. Fleur NgVveno. the founder and main leader of the 
birdwalks, received a Bouquet of flowers Many other enthusiastic birders have helped to lead the ever- 
popular birdwalks. Photo by Bettina NgVieno. 
MEMBERS’ LETTERS 
Dear Sirs. 
I have been a member, on and off. for manv years and the 
reason that I am writing is to ask if anything lias ever 
been written on the spiders of East Africa, presumably 
including the scorpions and cciilipcdcs 
One hears and reads, for example thai a bite from a 
baboon spider Is comparanvclv hamilcssandyei I have 
seen women coffee pickers who have been bitten by a 
is pc of largish brown, slightly hairy spider, suffenng 
considerably until they were rushed la hospital and given 
a shoi of adrenaline What about some of die aggressive 
looking jumping spiders and black widows with red 
hourglasses' on their stomachs of which I have seen at 
least three, on different occasions’’ Also, some of those 
extraordinarily shaped orb web spiders and the golden 
orb spiders dial I'm sure must trap small birds in their 
webs, particularly in the narrow streets of Mombasa as 
well as in the coastal telegraph lines It would be 
interesting to know who were their enemies, i.e those 
members of die hornet family Has anything been written 
about the solifiiges— large and small, which appear to 
be Tond of meat 7 And. although. I have not met one, 
what of the comparatively common, large spiders that 
live in deep holes near Ndara Ranch, not far from Voi 7 1 
heard that dicre was a German who was paying lotos to 
collect them for sale in Europe. 
