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The whole length of the male bird, six inches and a halt'. 

 From the carpal joint to the end of the wing, three inches 

 and a half: the second and third primaries are equal in 

 length, and the longest in the wing ; the first and fourth 

 are also equal in length, but a little shorter than the second 

 and third ; the fifth full one-eighth of an inch shorter than 

 the fourth. 



The female is without the black colour or the bright 

 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 dull 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 llth 

 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 Supple- 

 ment to this Dictionary, published in 181.3, was a valuable 

 addition, from the increased accumulation of observed facts. 

 In 1803, Colonel Montagu published his TESTACEA BRITAN- 

 NIC A, in two volumes quarto, with plates, and afterwards a 

 Supplement, which, now in 1838, is still the best work on 



the subject. His notes in Ichthyology, which by the kind- 

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