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EMBERIZID^. 



his sixty-first year,* by Mr. Cunnington, has appropriately 

 appeared in the ' Wiltshire Magazine ' for 1857 (iii. pp. 

 8794), since Col. Montagu was a native of that county, 

 in which his family had long been seated. During the 

 latter part of his life however he resided in Devonshire, 

 where he, as above stated, discovered that the present 

 species, hitherto only known to inhabit the continent, was 

 a native of England, and the vignette here introduced is a 

 representation of Knowle Cottage, situated about half a 

 mile from Kingsbridge, at which Montagu lived for many 

 years. For the opportunity of presenting this memorial of 

 an English Zoologist, I feel myself greatly indebted to the 

 kindness of the Kev. Robert Holdsworth, of Brixham, who 

 supplied me with the sketch from which the woodcut was 

 prepared. 



* In the ' Gentleman's Magazine' for 1815 (Ixxxv. pt. 2, p. 281) it is stated 

 that Montagu died on the 28th of August and in his sixty-fourth year, but 

 the Editor learns from Mr. Cunnington (through the kindness of their common 

 friend Mr. A. C. Smith) that the authority for the date and age here given 

 in the text rests upon a manuscript by Montagu's daughter, Mrs. Crawford, 

 and may therefore well be trusted. 



