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BANKERS & C/O BARCLAYS BANK 
BARCLAYS BANK, NAIROBI JOHN SEAGO BOX 30011, NAIROBI 
BARCLAYS BANK. NORWICH KENYA 
CHARTERED BANK. NEW YORK PHONE KABETE 330 
CABLES SEAGO C/O BARCLADOM, 
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| DIRECTOR'S OFFICE -~ NZP NAIROBI 
M6... STOO. YY lst September 1969 
Dr, IH, Reed i a | 
Director | ™® RECrIVED 
National Zoological Parkes.=—— 
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Washington 9 D.C, 
It seems that I can combine writing a letter with sending 
the photographs, so that you can hear how your little West 
African bongo is. She is now beginning to adapt to our type 
of foods and is looking extremely fit at the present time and 
is very friendly. No doubt Dr. Gray will have told you about 
the torn ear - it is a great pity but I gather it must have 
been done naturally in the wild, 
She is a completely different colour from our own bongo 
and I notice her stripe pattern is also totally different. 
The big male bongo which we caught is now absolutely mag- 
nificent and getting more and more friendly. We can now brush 
him. He has put on all the condition that he originally lost 
and after the period of moulting here in Nairobi the hair has 
nearly all returned, The only thing is that he is eating us 
out of house and home and I don't think I have ever seen an 
animal eat so much. John keeps suggesting to me tactfully that 
we might cut down the carrots and cabbage slightly!! 
Enclosed are the photographs with explanatory notes on each 
one. in the case of the Kodacolor the negatives I have already 
had prints taken off them and they have come out perfectly 
all right, and in the case of the Kodachrome of the bongo when 
it was first seen in the trap they are not good because it was 
raining when we first saw him, which you will be surprised to 
hear; 
With kindest regards from us all, 
Sincerely yours, 
JOHN SEAGO D. ANTHONY PARKINSON 
