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YELLOW-HAMMER. 



YELLOW BUNTING. YELLOW YOWLEY. YELLOW YELDRING. YELLOW YOLDRING. 

 YELLOW YITE. YELDROCK. YOLKRING. YOIT. SKITE. GOLDIE. 



PLATE LXXVIII. 



Emberiza citrinella, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



" flava, BRISSON. 



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 William Thompson, Esq., 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 removed 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 ' Zoological Journal/ his having known an instance in 

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

 ground, sat upon and hatched them; and Mr. Salmon, of Thetford, 

 mentions in the second volume of the 'Naturalist/ old series, page 274, 

 his having on one occasion, on the 29th. of May, 1834, found the nest 

 at the height of seven feet from the ground, in a broom tree. Mr. 

 Hewitson, too, found one at a height of six feet from the ground in 

 a spruce fir, and Mr. M. C. Cooke has informed me of one found near 

 Swanscombe, in a bush at a height of twelve feet. 



