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ing notes on the Harvest Mouse, Water Shrew, Cirl Bunting, Dart- 

 ford Warbler, etc., etc. 



In 1805 two more papers from his pen appeared in the ninth vol. 

 of the Transactions of the Linnean Society. These were entitled, 

 " Descriptions of several Marine Animals found on the South Coast 

 of Devonshire " (read June i8th, a long paper with seven plates), and 

 "An account of the larger and lesser Species of Horse-shoe Bats, 

 proving them to be distinct ; together with a Description of Vespertilio 

 barbastellus, taken in the South of Devonshire" (read Nov. 19th). 



Montagu's paper on " Some interesting additions to the Natural 

 History of Falco cyaneus and pygargus, together with Remarks on 

 some other British Birds," was read before the Linnean Society on 

 May 5th, 1807, and published in the Transactions, vol. ix. (p. 182), 

 1808. His papers entitled " Descriptions of several new or rare 

 animals, principally marine, discovered on the South Coast of Devon- 

 shire," read on April 7th, 1807, and an "Account of some new and rare 

 Marine British Shells and Animals," read on March 5th, 18 ri, did not 

 appear in the Transactions of the Linnean Society until a short time 

 before his death ; they may be found in the eleventh vol., published in 

 1815. 



Two posthumous papers in the Transactions of the Linnean 

 Society are "On the Black Stork" (xiii., 19), and "On five British 

 Species of Terebella'" (xii., 2, 340). Between March, 1809, ^"d March, 

 1815, Montagu contributed six papers to the Wernerian Society: — 

 "On some rare British Fishes" (i., 79), "On the Gannet " (i., 176), 

 "On Fasciola in Poultry" (i., 194), "On British Sponges" (ii., 67), 

 "On Fishes taken in South Devon" (ii., 413), and on "A supposed 

 new species of Dolphin " (iii., 75). 



Colonel Montagu, of Lackham, was a splendid example of that 

 happy combination, the country squire and genial naturalist, a type 

 unfortunately becoming rare. This brief sketch of his life may 

 fittingly be brought to a conclusion by quoting Edward Forbes's high 

 appreciation of him : 



" Montagu's eminence as a naturalist depended upon his acute 

 powers of observation, and the perspicuous manner in which he 

 recorded the facts that came under his notice. He excels as a des- 

 criber, and all his accounts of the animals which he noted are clearly 

 and truthfully drawn up. He avoided wordiness, yet his descriptions 

 are never so brief as to be obscure. I have had occasion chiefly to 

 test the observations of Montagu in cases where marine animals are 

 concerned, and have been astonished at the extent, variety, and 

 minuteness of his researches." 



