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successful traveller and field-natiu-alist. He began in 1903 by 

 a collecting trip in Cape Colony. In 1905 he accompanied 

 Colonel A. C. Baih\ard on an extensive journey through 

 western Persia and Armenia, and there made interesting 

 collections of birds and mammals. In the following year 

 he led with conspicuous success the Ruwenzori natural history 

 ex2:)edition, organized by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant. In 1907 he 

 again Avent to Persia, this time to the Elburz Mountains with 

 Colonel Bail ward. In 1909 he returned to Africa to explore 

 the Kalahari Desert with one of his Ruwenzori companions, 

 Gerald Legge. whose name is also in this sad list. In 1910 

 Woosnam was appointed game-warden in British East Africa, 

 and he only recently returned to England in order to rejoin 

 his 6ld regiment, the Worcesters. He Avas a silver medallist 

 and corresponding member of the Zoological Society of 

 London and a member of the British Ornithologists' Union. 

 All the collections he made are in the British Museum, and 

 accounts of the birds with his field-notes have appeared in 

 various volumes of the Ihis and in the Transactions of the 

 Zoological Society. 



