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ItfSESSOKES. EMBERIZID^E. 



CONIROSTRES. 



THE YELLOW BUNTING. 



OR YELLOW AMMER. 



Emberiza citrinella. 



Emberiza citrinella, Yellow Bunting, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 437. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 175. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 77. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 288. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 131. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Bruant jaune, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 304. 



THIS handsome Bunting is one of our most common 

 birds, and the male makes himself conspicuous, in summer 

 particularly, by frequenting almost every wood-hedge, gar- 

 den, lane, or high road, flying from one low tree to another, 

 or from bush to bush, as the traveller proceeds on his way. 

 From the brilliancy of his plumage, the fine lemon yellow 

 colour of the head and breast, and the rich chestnut and 

 brown of the back, this might claim for his species much 



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