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which is built in the fissures of the mountain 
rocks, is composed externally of grass, and in the 
interior is lined with feathers and hair, or the 
down of the Arctic Fox. The eggs, of which there 
are generally five, are of a bluish white hue with 
purplish streaks, and with numerous spots of brown 
round the thick end. 
BUNTING, YELLOW. 
YELLow Hammer. 
EMBERIZA CITRINELLA, Lin. 
This bird is to be met with in considerable 
numbers in England and throughout the greater 
part of Kurope, though it does not appear to extend 
so far northward as the Common Bunting. In 
summer the well known notes of the male, almost 
incessantly heard from the roadside hedge, cannot 
but attract the passer by, whose eye is no less 
pleased by the gay yellow colour of its plumage. 
In winter the Yellow Hammer joins the flocks of 
Greenfinches, Chaflfinches, &c. which congregate 
in the fields and farm yards. Itsnest, which is 
built in low bushes or upon the ground under a 
tuft of grass, is formed externally of coarse grass, 
within which is a layer of the same herbage, of 
finer quality, lined with hair. In breeding time it 
