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and Kurram in which I had the honour of collaborating with him 

 to a small extent and which was republished in this Journal. 

 Besides the abovementioned paper, Whitehead contribnted a large 

 number of valuable and interesting notes and papers to this Journal 

 which have greatly added to our knowledge of the Avifauna of the 

 N.-W. Frontier and Central India. 



Many original discoveries were placed to Whitehead's credit. He 

 first obtained the eggs of Phylliscojjus suhvirides and Saxicola capis- 

 irata and found a new race of Anorthura neglecta, which he did me 

 the great and undeserved honour of naming after me. To the 

 Avifauna of British India he added the Waxing and the Chaffinch 

 and discovered a new Thrush Oreocincla ivhiteheadi. He shed fresh 

 light on the distribution and nesting habits of many of our winter 

 bird visitors and found the nesting place of the Chinese Reed 

 Warbler besides making a large number of observations and accu- 

 mulating a vast amount of information on migration of birds in the 

 N.-W. Frontier Province. 



His additions to the Indian Fauna were not confined to Ornitho- 

 logy alone and the discovery of a new Indian Stoat will always be 

 associated with his name. He also added to our list of Mammals a 

 dormouse, not previously recorded further east than Persia, 



In the region of sport Whitehead was a good shikari and had 

 some fine trophies of bison and tiger from the C. P., while at polo 

 he was a good rider and constant player. 



A smart and capable soldier in his own profession, Whitehead 

 held the Adjutancy of his Regiment for 4 years. When War broke 

 out he was about to enter the Staff College, but was then retained 

 for service in England with Kitchener's Army and appointed to 

 command a Company in the 1 0th Battalion of the Highland Light 

 Infantry with the temporary rank of Major. He met his death, like 

 the gallant soldier he was, on the parapet of a German trench while 

 leading his Company. 



India has lost one of her best working Naturalists and one who 

 will be hard to replace," 



