Jeff Martin’s excellent biographical sketch of Harry Witherby (Martin 2023) has one important omission: the core role in the Ringing Scheme of Elsie Leach. Having met Witherby through their joint friend, Miss E. L. Turner, Elsie worked with Harry on the Ringing Scheme from 1930 onwards. In an entirely voluntary capacity, she dealt with all the routine administration and co-authored the reports of the scheme. When he trans-ferred the scheme to the BTO in 1937, she became the Honorary Secretary of the ringing committee, with all the administra-tion of the scheme and the reports of its progress in British Birds falling on her. When she retired in 1953, she was awarded an MBE for services to ornithology and a Tucker Medal for services to the BTO. Her retire-ment was only partial, however: she con-tinued to be entirely responsible for dealing with recoveries of foreign-ringed birds until the ringing office moved to the BTO’s new HQ in Tring in 1963.