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me until I found that the word is mis-spelt, 
and should be ‘ammer’ from the old Saxon 
amore meaning a bird. Soit should be Yellow- 
ammer. But as it is a mark of want of edu- 
cation to leave out your h’s the name has, 
I suppose, been corrupted. Another of its 
names is the Yellow Bunting, for it is really a 
bunting. It is a bird of the fields, hills, and 
woodlands, and the nest, which is open and 
cup-shaped and built of fine fibres, twigs and 
moss, and lined neatly with horsehair, is 
built at the latter end of April or May, on or 
near the ground in furze or brambles in a 
bank, and often in a tuft of grass. There are 
four or five eggs of a pale purplish white, 
streaked and spotted with reddish-brown. 
I believe there is a second nest later. The 
bird is a resident with us, and as early as 
February, when he commences mating, his 
pleasant busy notes are heard all over the 
country side, and all through the summer. 
They are spelt by some, ‘ chit chit,’ or ‘ chit 
chit-chitt-chir-r-r (the cits quickly and the 
chiy prolonged). Country people say they 
