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144 BIRD GALLERY. 
1. A nest built in the branch of an evergreen oak (Quercus ilex), 
about fifteen feet from the ground. 
Pembrokeshire, June. 
Presented by R. W. 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 Walsingham. 
No. 22. YELLOW BUNTING or YELLOW HAMMER. 
(Emberiza citrinella.) 
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, are generally purplish- 
white, streaked, spotted and scrawled with long hair-like markings 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 by Lord Walsingham. 
No. 23. COMMON or CORN-BUNTING. 
(Emberiza miliaria.) 
A resident species widely distributed throughout the British Islands, 
but decidedly local and principally to be found in cultivated districts. 
Its loosely constructed nest of dry grass and roots, lined with hair, is 
always placed on the ground, either 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 end of May and are usually of a dull 
purplish-white, blotched and streaked with dark purplish-brown. The 
nest exhibited, in addition to its set of four eggs, contained a Cuckoo’s 
egg. 
Dorset, July. 
Presented by C. E. Radclyffe, Esq. 
No. 24. REED-BUNTING. (Kmberiza schceniclus.) 
The Reed-Sparrow, as this bird is also called, is generally distributed 
and resident throughout the British Islands. During the summer 
months it frequents the vicinity of water and swampy places, where 
