CIRL BUNTING. 4.99 
The whole length of the male bird, six inches and a half. 
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 Ist 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 11th 
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 m 1815, was a valuable 
addition, from the increased accumulation of observed facts. 
In 1803, Colonel. Montagu published his Trsracza Brrran- 
nica, 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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