144 lUKI) (JALLEKV. 



1. A nest built in tlie branch of an evergreen oak [Quercus ile.i:), 

 about fifteen feet from tlie ground. 



PembrokCj June. 



Presented hij li. IV. Mirehouse, Esq. 



2. A nest built in an oak about twelve feet from the ground, with 



nearly full-fledged young. 



Norfolk, June. 



Presented by Lord Watsingham. 



No. 22. YELLOW^ BUNTING or YELLOW^ HAMMER. 



(Embcriza citrinclla.) 



A common resident in the British Islands. The nest, constructed of 

 dry grass and a little moss, lined with finer materials and hair, is usually 

 placed on or near the ground, in the side of a bank under tangled 

 herbage or in a low bush. In the present instance a dead furze-bush 

 ■was chosen. The eggs, four or five in number, arc generally purplish 

 white, streaked, spotted and scrawled with long hair-like markiugs of 

 purplish-black. Two broods are produced in the year, the first set of 

 eggs being laid in the middle of April. 



Norfolk, June. 

 Presented Inj Lord TFo/siiig/uim. 



No. 23, COMMON or CORN-BUNTING. 



(Emberiza miliaria.) 



A resident species widely distril)uted throughout the British Islands, 

 but decidedly local and principally to be fonud iu cultivated districts. 

 Its loosely constructed nest of dry grass and roots, lined with hair, is 

 always placed on the ground, cither in fields of growing corn, clover, and 

 grass, or among rough herbage, under the shelter of a low bush. Four 

 or five eggs are laid about the cud of May and are usually of a dull 

 purplish-white, blotched and streaked with dark purplish-brown. The 

 nest exhilnted, in addition to its set of four eggs, contained a Cuckoo's 



pcptr 



Dorset, July. 

 Presented btj C. E. Radchjjfe, Esq. 



No. 24. REED-BUNTING. (Emberiza schoeuiclus.) 



The Reed-Sparrow, as this bird is also called, is generally distributed 

 and resident throughout the British Islauds. During the summer 

 months it frequents the vicinity of water and swampy places, where 



