YELLOW-HAMMER 



YELLOW BUNTING YELLOW YOWLEY YELLOW YELDRING 

 YELLOW YOLDRING YELLOW YITE YELDROCK YOLK- 

 RING YOIT SKITE GOLDIE. 



PLATE LXXVIII. 

 Emberiza citrinelta, LINNAEUS. 



THE nest, which is rather bulky, is usually placed 

 either on or very near to the ground, on a bank, or 

 sheltered by some bush, among the twigs, or in a clump 

 of grass, or tuft of other herbage. It is formed of moss, 

 small roots, small sticks, and hair, tolerably well compacted 

 together ; the finer parts of the materials being of course 

 inside. The late Mr. William Thompson, of Belfast, knew 

 one in the middle of a field ; he also relates that in the 

 garden of a friend of his near that town, a pair of these 

 birds built their nest at the edge of a gravel walk, and 

 brought out four young, three of which being destroyed, 

 the nest was moved with the fourth one for greater safety 

 to a bank a few feet distant, and the old birds still kept 

 to it, and completed the education of their last nestling. 

 Mr. Blackwall mentions, in the first volume of the Zoo- 

 logical Journal, his having known an instance in which, 



in the month of June, the female laid her eggs upon the 



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