his sixty-first year,* by Mr. Cunnington, has appropriately
appeared in the ‘Wiltshire Magazine’ for 1857 (iii. pp.
87-94), 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, wTas
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 Rev. 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.
E m b e r iza h o r tu la n a , Linnseus*.
THE ORTOLAN.
Emberiza hortulana.
T h e Orto la n , or Green-headed Bunting, as it was called
when described and figured in 1776 by Brown in his ‘ Illustrations
of Zoology ’ (p. 74, pi. 80), from a living specimen
taken in Marylebone Fields, and then in the possession of
Mr. Moon in Hyde Park, is a bird that for many years
caused great confusion in the minds of English ornithologists.
The example, just mentioned, when it died, was given to
Tunstall (Synops. Newc. Mus. p. 68) from whose collection
Latham (Gen. Synops. B. ii. p. 211) again described it, without
knowing its history, and upon his redescription, Gmelin,
in 1788, founded his Emberiza chlorocephala (Syst. Nat. i.
* Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 309 (1766).