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Dusk 29th April Looking East 
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Moon 
5 April Full moon; 12 April Last quarter 
( rises at midnight); 19 April New moon; 
27 April First quarter (overhead at 
sunset); 
Stars 
The constellation of Leo the lion is high 
in the northeast. Find the bright light 
of the planet Jupiter, then look at the 
stars to the left. A sickle-shaped group 
of stars forms the head and shoulders 
of a resting lion. The bright star 
Regulus, near Jupiter, is the lion's front 
feet. The lion's haunches and tail are 
lower in the sky. 
Orion is setting in the west. Look 
westward after April 21st to see the 
constellations of Orion, the Hyades, the 
Pleiades, our moon and three planets 
(Venus, Mars and Saturn) in a diagonal 
line. 
Planets 
Bright Jupiter dominates the eastern 
sky. Jupiter is just south of the moon 
on the last day of the month. 
Saturn is still in the constellation of 
Gemini, high in the northwest, almost 
overhead. 
Venus is a brilliant evening object in the 
western sky, setting well after the sun. 
At the beginning of the month it is to the 
left of the Pleiades (the seven sisters). 
Each day Venus shifts northwards, to be 
seen inside the cluster on April 3rd. 
Mars is not far from Venus, higher in the 
sky, but rather faint now. It sets about 
2 hours after the sun. Mars can be seen 
just south of the moon on April 23rd. 
The tiny planet Mercury is still high in the 
sunset at the start of this month, visible 
for the first few days. On April 6 it 
appears stationary, then disappears 
shortly after. In its orbit around the sun, 
Mercury passes through the glare of the 
sun on the 17th (therefore impossible to 
see). After passing through the glare of 
the sun it is found in the morning sky for 
the rest of the month, as a prominent 
morning object. 
Is the Zanzibar leopard (Panthera 
pardus adersi) extinct? H. V. 
Goldman & M. T. Walsh 
Islands in the desert—forest 
vegetation of Kenya’s smaller 
mountains and highland areas 
(Nyiru, Ndoto, Kulal, Marsabit, 
Loroghi, Ndare, Mukogodo, Porror, 
Mathews, Gakoe, Imenti, Ngaia, 
Nyambeni, Loita, Nguruman, 
Nairobi). R.W. Bussmann 
A taxonomic study of Blepharis 
edulis complex (Acanthaceae) in 
eastern Africa. I. Malombe, E. 
Ke/bessa & M. Muasya 
Abstracts for these articles are 
available online at 
www.naturekenya.org 
Short Communications 
Notes on owl pellets found in the 
Udzungwa Scarp Forest Reserve, 
Tanzania W.T. Stanley, D.C. Moyer, 
E.A. Mu lung u J. Pokines & J. A. 
Bittner 
The citation of the name 
Encephalartos hildebrandtii L.E. 
Newton 
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