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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. 

 EMBEEIZA CITEINELLA, Lin. 



This bird is to be met with in considerable 

 numbers in England and throughout the greater 

 part of Europe, 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, Chaffinches, &c. which congregate 

 in the fields and farm yards. Its nest^ 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 



