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 LIEUT.-COLONEL BOYD R. HORSBURGH. 



We regret to record the death of Lt.-Col. Boyd Robert 

 Horsburgh, A.S.C., which occurred on July 11th, 1916. 

 From his earhest childhood he had been devoted to 

 Natural History in all its branches, but birds were his 

 special hobby, and in the ornithological world he was 

 well known as a successful aviculturist. His ponds at 

 Tandridge Priory, Oxted, his charming home in Surrey, 

 contamed numbers of Ducks and Geese, including some 

 of the rarer American species seldom kept in captivity 

 in this country. He imported some fine collections from 

 India and elsewhere, including Mini vets, Sunbirds and 

 other species which had not previously been seen alive in 

 England. Besides contributing articles to the Avicultural 

 Magazine, he published, in 1912, The Game Birds and 

 Water-Fold of South Africa, illustrated by Sergeant (now 

 Lieutenant) G. G. Davies, 1st S. African Mounted Rifles, 

 who also contributed a number of valuable field-notes. 



Gol. Horsburgh Avas the elder son of the late Capt. C. B. 

 Horsburgh, and was born at Poona on July 27th, 

 1871. Educated at Wellington and Sandhurst, he joined 

 the Warwickshire Regiment in 1893, and served for 

 two years in Ceylon, subsequently exchanging to the 

 Army Service Corps. He saw active service during 

 the Sierra Leone Rebellion, 1898-99, and in the 

 South African War, 1899-1902, when he was invalided 

 home, receiving the Queen's and King's medals with five 

 clasps. Li 1902 he married Miss Elizabeth R. Mitchell, 

 daughter of Mr. Chapman Mitchell of Philadelphia, U.S.A., 

 and in 1912 retired from the Army with the rank of 

 Major and settled down in his home in Surrey till the 

 outbreak of War in 1914, when he was recalled to the A.S.C. 

 He eventually went out to France as Lt.-Col. and was 

 present at the battle of Loos, when he was mentioned in 

 despatches. He was invalided home in November, 1915, 

 and underwent an operation from which he never re- 

 covered. A keen sportsman and genial companion, it is 

 sad he should have died in the prime of life. W.R.O.G. 



