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younger members of great promise, cut off in their prime, 

 which must cause more infinite sorrow. To such names 

 as Alexander, Wilson, Barrett-Hamilton, Brabourne, and 

 Woosnam must now be added those of Captain Gerald 

 Legge and Major C. H. T. Whitehead. 



Legge was born on the 30th of April, 1882, and educated 

 at St. David^s School (Reigate), Eton, and at Christ Church 

 (Oxford). His intense interest and delight in all matters 

 connected with natural history was always an outstanding 

 feature in his character, and soon after he left college he 

 joined the famous Ruwenzori Expedition (1905-1906), his 

 father. Lord Dartmouth, becoming one of its most generous 

 supporters. 



Woosnam, the leader of the Expedition, and Legge 

 were at once drawn towards one another, and the meeting of 

 these two kindred spirits led to a close friendship. It is 

 sad to think of both dying in Gallipoli after all the travels 

 they had done together, but such is the fortune of war. 

 During the Ruwenzori trip Legge did admirable work, and 

 obtained examples of quite a number of new and rare 

 species of birds which were not met with by the other 

 members of the Expedition, though all were experts in the 

 work of collecting. Woosnam quickly recognised his 

 extraordinary ability in obtaining species no one else seemed 

 to find, and would frequently undertake the skinning of the 

 birds, so as to leave him free to return to the collecting- 

 ground. Legge possessed some extra sense which enabled 

 him to detect the presence of a rare bird. In addition to 

 this, he was an unusually fine shot, and could make 

 wonderful practice with a '410 collecting-gun, many of his 

 specimens, such as the new dwarf Pipit [Anthus leggei) — 

 a very difficult bird to procure — being killed on the wing. 



His next journey was to the Malay Peninsula, where he 

 was interested in a rubber estate in Johore, but the climate 

 did not suit him, and after visiting Java for a time he 

 returned to England. 



In 1909 Legge again joined Woosnam in an expedition 

 to Lake Ngami, in South Africa, which was reached 



