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BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



IDellow Bunting. 



The Yellow Bunting {^Emberiza citrinella^ Linnaeus) is a 

 resident in the British Islands. It is also a resident 

 throughout Europe and in Asia, reaching as far eastward 

 as Turkestan. The adult male in summer has the crown 

 yellow, tinged with green on the sides ; eye-stripe, yellow ; 

 above, brown, feathers having black centres ; rump and 

 tail-coverts, chestnut ; tail-feathers, mostly dark brown, with 

 elongated white patches on the two outermost pairs ; wings, 

 dark brown ; primaries, dusky brown, margined narrowly 

 with yellowish ; beneath, yellow, tinged on chest with dull 

 olive ; flanks, streaked with blackish-brown ; irides, dark- 

 brown ; bill, horn colour; legs and feet, light brown. 

 Length, between six and seven inches. The female is 

 duller in colouration than the male. 



