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EMBERIZA CITRINELLA. YELLOW BUNTING. 



YELLOW HAMMER. YELLOW YELDRING OR YOLDRING. YELLOW YOWLEY. 

 YELLOW YITE, YOLKRING, OR YELDROCK. SKITE. DEVIL'S BIRD. 

 BUIDHEIN. BUIDHEAG-BHUACHAIR. 



Emberiza Citrinella. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 309. 



Emberiza Citrinella. Lath. Ind. Orn. T. 400. 



Bruant Jaune. Emberiza Citrinella. Temm, Man. d'Oni. I. 304. 



Yellow Bunting. Emberiza Citrinella. Selb. Illustr. L 288. 



Emberiza Citrinella. Yellow Bunting. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 131. 



Back and icings bright red, the central parts of each feather 

 hroicnish-hlack. Male icith the head and throat bright yellow, 

 the feathers of its upper part tipped icith black, the breast brown- 

 ish-red. Female 'with the yellow of the head obscured by dusky 

 and brown, the breast pale greyish-broicn, 



Male. — The Yellow Bunting, although neither inelegant in 

 form, nor deficient in richness of colouring, is so common that 

 it attracts little attention. It is smaller and proportionally 

 more slender than the species already described, which it ac- 

 cordingly excels in liveliness and activity. The body is ovate, 

 the neck short, the head oblong and of moderate size, the feet 

 rather short, the wings of ordinary length. The bill is very 



