" THE GRADUAL INCREASE OP KNOWLEDGE IN THIS AS WELL AS OTHER BRANCHES OF 

 ZOOLOGY, AND THE LABOURS OF SEVERAL RECENT NATURALISTS, AMONG WHOM STAND 

 PROMINENT THE NAMES OF THMMINCK AND MONTAGU, HAVE ESSENTIALLY CONTRIBUTED 

 TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE VARIOUS AND UNEXPECTED CHANGES OF PLUMAGE, AND 

 CLEARED UP MANY OF THE DOUBTS AND DIFFICULTIES, IN WHICH THE HISTORY OF SEVERAL 

 SPECIES HAD BEEN SO LONG INVOLVED." — Selby. 



" BUT THERE WERE OTHER LABOURERS WHOSE EFFORTS ASSUMED A MORE SCIENTIFIC 

 ASPECT. THE LATE GEO. MONTAGU, ESQ. CULTIVATED WITH ZEAL MANY DEPARTMENTS OF 

 BRITISH ZOOLOGY. IT IS BUT A JfST TRIBUTE TO THIS NATURALIST TO STATE THAT, IN 

 HIS WRITINGS, HE APPEARS PROGRESSIVELY TO HAVE BEEN FORSAKING THE ARTIFICIAL 

 METHOD, AND ACQUIRING A KEENER RELISH FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCHES; THE TRUTH 

 WAS AT ALL TIMES EAGERLY SOUGHT AFTER." — Fleming. 



