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lemon yellow on the head and throat ; the upper surface of 

 the head and body is streaked longitudinally with black on 

 the dull olive colour of the one, and the reddish brown of 

 the other ; the under surface of the body is similarly streaked 

 with black on a dviU and dingy yellow. 



Young birds very closely resemble adult females. 



English Naturalists are greatly indebted to Colonel Mon- 

 tagu for the careful and patient investigation he bestowed 

 upon various subjects, which enabled him to produce several 

 valuable communications, and make many interesting addi- 

 tions to British Zoology. He contributed nine papers to 

 the Linnean Society, between the 1st of March 1796 and 

 the 6th of June 1815, which are published in the Trans- 

 actions of that Society ; and six papers were furnished to 

 the Wernerian Natural History Society between the lltli 

 of March 1809 and the 20th of March 1815; these were 

 also published in the Memoirs of that Society. In 1802 

 Colonel Montagu published his Ornithological Dictionary, 

 the best history of British Birds at that time. The Sup- 

 plement to this Dictionary, published in 1813, was a va- 

 luable addition, from the increased accumulation of observed 

 facts. In 1803, Colonel Montagu published his Testacea 

 Britannica, in two volumes quarto, with plates, and af- 

 terwards a Supplement, which in 1838 is still the best work 

 on the subject. His notes in Ichthyology, which by the 

 kindness of my friend Mr. Broderip, I was allowed to avail 

 myself of in the History of British Fishes, included refer- 

 ences to seventy-four species. 



Colonel Montagu supplied several new Crustacea to 

 his friend Dr. Leach, while the latter was engaged on 

 the Malacostraca Podopt/iahnata Britarinife, who, under 

 the article on Processa canaliculata, tab. xli. thus notices 

 what had then very recently occuiTed : — " Since writing 

 the above, I have received intelligence of the death of this 



