closer and closer to the little bird in the hedge. And. one of the shrikes had 
a crust of bread in its mouth. A few minutes later the little bird disappeared 
into the hedge and wasno longer visible, but.one of the adults flew into the 
hedge and contact was made as the hedge shook. From the hedge, the 
bird got onto Che branch of a bush, fully exposed, and I was enttanced as I 
watched the adults (whether just one or both I could not tell) c^e to 
the youngster. (Note: All chat work swatting flies, and what does the shrike 
parent bring? Bread!) , . u u * 
After one particular feeding, the adult moved away from the baby but still 
on the same exposed branch and started to call. Within seconds a kite 
and started toward the baby when the second shrike came to the rescue, darti^ 
at the kite and deflecting it from its course . . . only to have the kite fly 
towards me as I stood watching from the balcony. There went my confidence. 
The feeding progressed, but the birds eventually moved into a bougainvillea 
and disappeared from view. I gave up watching, but felt very 
the little bird was back in its normal habitat - whether with its natural 
». ‘.w to .to h.a 
to its cry) and within a few seconds I located him on a branch of one of the 
bushes clLc to where he had disappeared the day before . . . ^ 
adults was still coming with food. I thought I was happy f ® 
made contact the day before; 1 was overjoyed to find that he was s?ill being 
cared for. It was all a most delightful and rewarding experience. 
Afi of this date, 7 November, I have not seen him ai^ain. 
Carolyn L. Brown, Box 42493, Nairobi. 
CHEI40SIT 
The above name stands for the Nandi Bear, which is « ’ 
Going through Bernard r.euvelman's book. On the track of Unknown Animals, 
there is a whole chapter on the Chenosit or Nandi Bear. 
There are three main areas where sightings have been >fecorded. They are 
along the Magadi to Kajiado railway in 1913, where it was sighte y 
engineer called Hicks, his account reads "as I got 
it was not a Hyena. In colour it was tawny - about like a 
with verv sha^^^^y long hair. It was short and thick-set in the bouy, with hi£ 
withers and had a short and stumpy nose. It was very 
had very short ears and had no tail that I could see; ^ 
out of the ’tass I notice-d the legs were very shaggy right down to the teet 
Afother Wlity is in the Tana River area, where the 
Koddoelo A German missionary, staying in the district, 
village had deserted their settlement and moved across the ri , ^ ^ 
the Koddeola, was in the vicinity. A Pok^o identified it as a huge baboon, 
which occasionally moves on two leps and is very 
The third area is the Nandi regicn, where the legend of t 
"‘’^Th^riran account by Gunnar Anderssan, around 1934. ^iamosi. 
A forest-pip had just bean killed by a very ' ^as not^ery 
was also roaring and he wrote - "and to judoe from the Jbed 
oleased to be driven off". The Nandi tribesmen who saw the animal 
it as - "very big, with lonjc black hair and a long tail, the h^d " 
but Lya sa^". He describes the spoor as - "very large, s^eth like the^^^ 
mark of an old leopard, which could not draw his claws m p p y* 
