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CIEL BUNTING. 



FRENCH YELLOW-HAMMER. BLACK-THROATED YELLOW-HAMMER. 



PLATE LXXIX. PIG. I. 



Emberiza cirlus, PENNANT. MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



" elcathorax, BECHSTEIN. 



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 hair, and are composed entirely of 

 the other materials, the small roots constituting the lining. R. A. 

 Julian, Esq., Jun., has known one, containing four eggs, which he 

 met with in July, 1850, in a steep bank: it may have been a second 

 one of the year. 



The eggs are four or five in number, of a dull bluish white, dis- 

 tinctly streaked and speckled with dark brown: they vary much in 

 colour and markings. The young are hatched in about a fortnight. 



