diff --git a/doc/fixes34.4 b/doc/fixes34.4
index a72ea7e07..00a14057f 100644
--- a/doc/fixes34.4
+++ b/doc/fixes34.4
@@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ clear prompt from screen after ESC is used to abort "In what direction?"
 minor interface changes for interactively manipulating autopickup exceptions
 chatting with quest leader who was brought back from the dead gave warnings
 becoming green slime or mimicking gold violates "never changed form" conduct
+when a monster grew into a higher form which had previously been genocided,
+	the message explaining its fate was only given if it was sensed via ESP
 
 
 Platform- and/or Interface-Specific Fixes
diff --git a/src/makemon.c b/src/makemon.c
index fc23c9ca3..01471a241 100644
--- a/src/makemon.c
+++ b/src/makemon.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*	SCCS Id: @(#)makemon.c	3.5	2004/06/12	*/
+/*	SCCS Id: @(#)makemon.c	3.5	2005/06/13	*/
 /* Copyright (c) Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, 1985. */
 /* NetHack may be freely redistributed.  See license for details. */
 
@@ -1453,7 +1453,7 @@ struct monst *mtmp, *victim;
 	if ((int)++mtmp->m_lev >= mons[newtype].mlevel && newtype != oldtype) {
 	    ptr = &mons[newtype];
 	    if (mvitals[newtype].mvflags & G_GENOD) {	/* allow G_EXTINCT */
-		if (sensemon(mtmp))
+		if (canspotmon(mtmp))
 		    pline("As %s grows up into %s, %s %s!", mon_nam(mtmp),
 			an(ptr->mname), mhe(mtmp),
 			nonliving(ptr) ? "expires" : "dies");