Hugh Whistler

Hugh Whistler (28 September 1889 - 7 July 1943), F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. was an English ornithologist who worked in India. He wrote one of the first field guides to Indian birds and documented their distributions in numerous notes in several journals apart from describing several new subspecies.

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