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year or two since. But the hedge side is the rule. The eggs, 
three to five in number, and often very round in shape, vary 
considerably in individual cases, but never so much as to leave 
the accustomed eye in a moment’s doubt as to what bird the egg 
belongs to. Of a white ground-colour, scarcely tinged at all 
with vinous red, or perhaps much suffused, all of them are 
streaked and veined and spotted with dark brown with a shade 
ofred in it. They are beautiful eggs to my eye.—Iig. 3, plate IV. 
. 95. CIRL BUNTING—(Eatberiza cirlus). 
French Yellow Hammer, Black-throated. Yellow Hammer.— 
A bird long overlooked by our native ornithologists, and perhaps 
more frequently eccurring than is even yet suspected. Still it 
is by no means a very common bird,—though identified as oc- 
curring in, perhaps, most of the southern counties. The Rev. 
Orpen Morris, from whose work on British Birds and Eggs 1 
have taken the two provincial names given above, says, “ the 
nest is placed in furze or low bushes, and is usually made of 
dry stalks of grass and a little moss, lined with hair and small 
roots. Some are wholly without moss or Wales.) oes be 
small roots constituting the lining. The eggs are four or five 
in number, of a dull, bluish white, streaked and speckled with 
dark brown. They vary much in colour and markings.’— Fug. 4, 
plate IV. 
96. ORTOLAN BUNTING—(Hnberiza hortulana). 
Ortolan, Green-headed Bunting.—Merely an occasional visitor 
nesting in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Lapland. 
TII—FRINGILLID. 
97, CHAFFINCH—(Fringilla celebs). 
Spink, Pink, Twink, Skelly, Shelly, Shell-apple, Scobby, Shilia, 
