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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS IN THE ROLL OF 

 HONOUR. 



We have already had to deplore the loss on the field of battle 

 of several ornithologists who had made a special stud}' of 

 British birds. In addition to these we regret to state that 

 other well-known ornithologists have laid down their lives 

 for their countr^^ Although their bird-work was mostly 

 (lone abroad and thus did not come within the scope of this 

 magazine, nevertheless we feel that a tribute, however slight 

 and brief, to their memories should here be given. 



I^ORD Brabourne. — Wyndham Wentworth KnatchbuU- 

 Hugessen, third Baron Brabourne, was killed at Neuve 

 Chapelle on March 1 2th, 1915. He was born on September 

 21st, 1885, and succeeded to the title in 1909. He entered 

 the Grenadier Guards in 1910 and passed into the Special 

 Reserve in 1911. Lord Brabourne had for some 3'ears been 

 engaged in the study of South American birds, and at the 

 time war broke out he was making collections of birds in 

 Peru, whence he hurried home to rejoin his regiment. In 

 1910 he became a member of the British Ornithologists" 

 Union, and in the same year commenced in collaboration 

 with Mr. C. Chubb a work on the Birds of South America. 

 In 1912 the first volume of this great midertaking was 

 published, but no further volumes have appeared, and Ave 

 fear that it will be impossible for Mr. Chubb to continue 

 it alone. 



Captain the Hon. Gerald Legge, second son of the 

 Earl of Dartmouth, was mortally wounded at Suvla Bay 

 on September 9th, 1915. He was born in 1882 and all his 

 life was a keen naturalist, taking a special interest in wildfowl, 

 which he had studied for a number of years, not only in the 

 field, but also from a scientific point of view. At Patshull, 

 his father's seat in Staffordshire, he reared a great many 

 ducks of different species in a semi-wild state. Mr. J. R. B. 

 Masefield writes as follows : " As an instance of his keenness 

 in studying ducks I ma}' relate that one day when I met 

 him at Patshull he had just arrived from Northumberland, 

 whence he had brought a nest of Teal just hatching out. 

 By telegraphing forward to several stations en route he had 

 secured a relay of hot- water bottles by means of which he 

 had succeeded in keeping the ducklings warm. He gave me 

 regular notes on the rarer Staffordshire birds, and especially 



