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He was an early member of the Linnean Society of London, 
and some of his most important papers were published in its 
Transactions. 
The following are his principal works:— 
“The Sportsman’s Dictionary; or a Treatise on Gunpowder and 
Fire Arms, &c.” London, 1792, re-printed in 1803, 8vo. “An 
Ornithological Dictionary; or Alphabetical Synopsis of British 
Birds,” 1 vol., 8vo., 1802. ‘‘Testacea Britannica; or Natural 
History of British Shells, Marine, Land, and Freshwater, including 
the most minute, systematically arranged and embellished with 
figures,” 4to., London, 1803. Supplement to the preceeding, 1809, 
with plates and descriptions of new species. In the Transactions 
of the Linnean Society he published the following papers :— 
‘Description of three rare species of British Birds,” vol. IV, 1796. 
“Description of several Marine Animals found on the coast of 
Devonshire,” vol. VII, 1802. ‘On some species of British Quad- 
rupeds, Birds, and Fishes,” vol. VII, 1803. ‘On the larger and 
lesser species of horse-shoe Bats, proving them to be distinct, with 
a description of Vespertilio barbastellus taken in the south of 
Devonshire,” vol. [X, 1805. “On the Natural History of the Falco 
Cyaneus and Pygargus, vol. IX, 1807.” ‘Of several new or rare 
Animals, principally Marine, discovered on the south coast of 
Devonshire,’ vol. XI, 1809. “Of some new and rare British 
Marine Shells and Animals,” ib. 
He also furnished six papers to the Wernerian Natural History 
Society, which were published between March, 1809, and March, 
1815. 
The works of Yarrell, Rennie, Fleming, Selby, and others, 
might be quoted in testimony of the high position which Montagu 
holds in the estimation of British Zoologists; but no one perhaps 
was so capable of appreciating his genius and attainments as the 
late Professor Edward Forbes, of the University of Edinburgh. 
The following remarks contained in a letter which I received from 
this gentleman a few months previous to his decease, will appro- 
priately close the present memoir. 
“ Montagu’s eminence as a Naturalist depended upon his acute 
powers of observation, and the perspicuous manner in which he 
