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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
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Molineux (Heney King Gisboene), nat. 1891 
This author, who is the son of Major Molineux of East- 
bourne, and was born in that town May 9, 1891, is now 
serving in France with the 12th Sussex Regiment. He has 
“ endeavoured to include several varieties not seen in any 
other list.” 
* [1906.] A List of European Birds, . . . 853 species (varieties). East- 
bourne. N.D. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 5 un. and slip of errata + pp. 33 = 
16 11. of text. 
Montagu (Geoege), 1751-1815 
Montagu, one of the most eminent ornithologists of his 
day, was born in 1751 at the family seat, Lackham House, 
in Wiltshire, and was one of a family of thirteen. He entered 
the Army and served as a Captain in the 15th Regiment of 
Foot in the American War. He married at the age of 
eighteen and had four sons and two daughters. He settled 
first at Eastern Grey, Wiltshire, where he became Acting- 
Colonel of the County Militia. He lost three of his sons in 
the wars with France, and with the eldest entered into 
litigation, which caused the dispersion of the family estates 
by order of the Court of Chancery. Having resigned his 
commission in 1797 he, in the following year, took up his 
residence at Knowle Cottage, half a mile from Kingsbridge, 
and lived there for the rest of his life, devoting his whole 
time to the study of natural history. He formed extensive 
collections, that of the birds being now preserved in the 
Natural History Museum, South Kensington. By far his 
most important work is his celebrated Ornithological 
Dictionary , justly termed by Coues “ One of the most notable 
of treatises on British Birds, as a vade mecum which has 
held its place at a thousand elbows for three-quarters of a 
century.” 
He published, in addition, an important work on British 
Testacea, the plates of which were drawn and engraved by 
