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the ducks, which he noted at Patshull." Legge was a member 

 of the British Museum expedition under R. B. Woosnam 

 M'hich explored with much success the Ruwenzori in 1906, 

 A\hile in 1909 he again went to Africa with Woosnam to 

 ex]jlore the Kalahari Desert. In both expeditions valuable 

 collections of birds were made. In the course of an apprecia- 

 tion in the Field, his friend J. G. M(illais) writes thus ; " The 

 rising sun, the beauty of a biixl's Aving, or a lovely flower 

 were things before which he stood hat in hand, just as he 

 held everything that was false or small of no account. . . . 

 Such a man was at once ready to defend his country. He 

 was last seen lying mortally wounded on the ground, and 

 cheering on the men of Avhom ho A\as so ]iroud. That was 

 (Jeralcl Legge." 



Major C. H. T. Whitehead was killed in action in France 

 on September 25th or 26th, 1915. He was thirty-fom- years 

 of age and was the seventh son of the late Mr. and of Mrs. 

 AVhitehead, of Deighton Grove, York. Four of his brothers 

 are serving in the Army and one in the NavJ^ Major White- 

 head served in the South African war. At the time of his 

 death he was attached to the Highland Light Infantry, but 

 his own regiment was the 56th Punjab KiHes, and it was 

 from liis excellent bird-work on the north-A\cst frontiers of 

 India that he Avas AA'idelj' knoAvn to ornithologists. Mr. E. C. 

 Stuart Baker in a letter to us Avrites as follows : — 



'■ Whitehead fell leading his men in a charge, being shot 

 dead on the very parapet of the enemy's trench, Avhich Avas 

 taken. In person Whitehead Avas a singularly charming 

 character, intensely earnest in CA^erA'thing he did. ])crsevering 

 and thorough, and most careful in all his A\ork. He dis- 

 coA^ered the ncAv Thrush, Avhich I had the ])leasure of naming 

 Oreocinda whitchcadi aftei- him, and amongst other interesting 

 discoveries he made Avere the breeding-haunts in the Himalayas 

 of the Chinese Reed- Warbler." 



His loss Avill be keenly felt by ornithologi.sts and especially 

 by those Avhose Avork lies in India. 



Richard Boav'en Woosnam. — Second-Lieutenant R. li. 

 Woosnam A\'as killed Avhile gallantly leading his men in an 

 attack on the Turkish trenches in Gallii)oli on June 4th, 1915. 

 Woosnam Avas born on November 17th, 1880. He served 

 throughout the South African campaign, after Avhich he 

 resigned his commission in order to ))ursue the bettei- his 

 ta.ste foi' natui'al history. Woosuaiu was an experienced and 



