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RUSTIC BUNTING— (i^;;/^rr/>^ pustka). 

 Has occurred in England too or three times only. 



LITTLE BUNTING— (iiw^^r/^^ pusilld). 

 Equally rare and accidental with its predecessor 



BUNTING, COMMON BUNTING— (£";;/^^r/^^ 



viiliaria). 

 Corn Bunting, Ebb. — The name of this bird shows 

 that it is not by any means rare in perhaps most of 

 our country districts. It often utters its not very 

 musical cry seated on a tall spray in a hedge, and 

 sometimes while flying along. The nest is always 

 made very near the ground, if not actually on it, 

 usually among stunted bushes or coarse herbage. It 

 is made of roots, bents or coarser materials yet, and 

 lined with hair. The Bunting lays four or five eggs, 

 of a kind of stained-white ground, suggesting the idea 

 that a vinous-red stain has been imperfectly washed 

 off, and blotched and streaked and speckled, in the 

 characteristic Bunting style, with shades of purplish 

 brown, some of them rather dark. Though called 

 Corn Bunting, it may be found where corn-fields are 

 not abundant. I once met with a nest at the foot of 

 St. Abb's Head.— T^zV \, plate IV, 



YELLOW HAMMER— (i?;;2^m>^ citrinella). 

 Yellow Bunting, Yellow Yowley, Gold-spink, Yellow 

 Yeldring, Yellow Yoldring, or Yeorling, Yeldrock, 

 Yellow Yite, Yoit, etc. — I used to hear in Berwickshire, 

 that 



•'The Brock, the Toad, and the Yellow Yeorling, 

 (jiet a diap o' the JJeil's bluid ilka May nioruiug." 



