114 CATALOGUE OF BIRDS. 



is partial to rough moor, uncultivated lands, and 

 furze-covered waste tracts. 



"The nest is made of fine twios, moss, and orrass 

 stalks, and lined with wool, hair, vegetable down, 

 and sometimes a few feathers. It is generally 

 placed in gorse or juniper bushes, though often in 

 hedofes ; egfors — four to six in number, are bluish- 

 white, blotched, speckled, and streaked with reddish- 

 brown and purplish-red. Two broods are often 

 reared in the season. The food consists of soft 

 seeds, especially those of an oily nature, such as the 

 various species of flax and hemp, grains of charlock, 

 etc., knot-grass, and other weeds also being largely 

 consumed; in winter various kinds of berries and 

 even oats are devoured" (Howard Saunders). 



This bird has a sweet and agreeable song, and, as 

 a consequence, has received much attention from 

 bird - catchers with their lime, nets, and other 

 paraphernalia for making large captures for caging 

 purposes. It is often crossed with the canary when 

 in captivity, the result being very successful. The 

 proper plumage for the cock in the spring would be 

 blood red forehead, grey head, chestnut mantle, and 

 carmine breast. " Resident all over Europe, also in 

 North-Western Africa, the Canaries, and Madeira. 

 Eastward as far as the Altai Mountains" (H.S.) 



The Yellow Bunting. 

 FaTuily, Frino;illidce . 

 This bright - plumaged little bird, the more 

 common name for which is the Yellow Hammer, 



