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Yorkshire are : Bunting, Common Bunting, Big Bunting, 

 and Corn Bunting (general) ; Ground Lark at Doncaster ; 

 Chub Lark along the Lower Wharfe and in the Western Ainsty ; 

 and Titlark in Holderness. 



YELLOW BUNTING. 

 Emberiza citrinella (Z.). 



Resident ; generally distributed and abundant. A spring and 

 autumn migrant. 



The first mention of the Yellow Bunting as a Yorkshire 

 bird was made by that accomplished naturalist and 

 Yorkshireman, Marmaduke Tunstall, in 1874, who referred 

 to it as being " called in the north ' Goldspink,' as also ' Yellow 

 Yowley.' " (Tunst. MS. p. 68.) 



Thomas Allis, 1844, wrote : 



Emberiza citrinella. Yellow Bunting Rather common near 

 Huddersfield ; very common in other districts. 



One of the most abundant birds of our hedgerows and 

 fields, and generally familiar, as the various local names 

 testify, the Yellow Bunting, or Yellow Ammer, is found 

 commonly where its simple requirements exist, from the 

 cultivated parts of the extreme north and west to the hedges 

 near the seaboard. During the autumn and winter months 

 the bird is very gregarious, and consorts in large numbers 

 with finches and others of its genus, in their wanderings in 

 search of food. It is also a common immigrant in the autumn 

 in October and November, appearing generally at the same 

 time and in the same manner as the preceding species ; these 

 newly arrived birds after a short rest soon make their way 

 inland. In the spring a return movement is noticed, and 

 at the Humber mouth considerable flocks may be noted 

 moving leisurely northward, passing through the district. 



In the Beverley district it frequently builds in spruce 

 trees in young plantations. The latest nest of which I have 



