8 Bird gallery. 



1. A nest built in the branch of an evergreen oak (Quercus ilex), 

 about fifteen feet from the ground. 



Pembrokeshire, June. 



Presented by R. W. Mirehouse, Esq. 



2. A nest built in an oak about twelve feet from the ground, with 

 nearly full-fledged young. 



Norfolk, June. 



Presented by Lord Walsingham, F.R.S. 



No. 22. YELLOW BUNTING or YELLOW HAMMER. 



(Emberiza citrinella.) 



A common resident in the British Islands. The nest, constructed of 

 dry grass and a little moss, lined with finer materials and hair, is usually 

 placed on or near the ground, in the side of a bank under tangled 

 herbage or in a low bush. In the present instance a dead furze-bush 

 was chosen. The eggs, four or five in number, are generally purplish- 

 white, streaked, spotted and scrawled with long hair-like markings of 

 purplish-black. Two broods are produced in the year, the first set of 

 eggs being laid in the middle of April. 



Norfolk, June. 



Presented by Lord Walsingham, F.R.S. 



No. 23. COMMON or CORN-BUNTING. 



(Emberiza miliaria.) 



A resident species widely distributed throughout the British Islands, 

 but decidedly local and principally to be found in cultivated districts. 

 Its loosely constructed nest of dry grass and roots, lined with hair, is 

 always placed on the ground, either in fields of growing corn 3 clover, and 

 grass, or among rough herbage, under the shelter of a low bush. Four 

 or five eggs are laid about the end of May and are usually of a dull 

 purplish- white, blotched and streaked with dark purplish-brown. The 

 nest exhibited, in addition to its set of four eggs, contained a Cuckoo's 



egg. 



Dorset, July. 



Presented by C. E. Radclyffe, Esq. 



No. 24. REED-BUNTING. (Emberiza schoeniclus.) 



The Reed- Sparrow, as this bird is also called, is generally distributed 

 and resident throughout the British Islands. During the summer 

 months it frequents the vicinity of water and swampy places, where 



