42 YELLOW-HAMMER. 



on the centre. The quill feathers of the wings have the 

 yellow margins less bright; the white spots on the side feathers 

 of the tail are smaller even than in the female; under tail 

 coverts, dusky in the centre. 



Varieties occasionally occur one has been seen in which 

 the head, neck, and throat were pure white, with a few spots 

 of brown on the top of the head. Montagu mentions one 

 he had, in which the white of the head, neck, and lower 

 part of the back, as also the whole of the breast, were pale 

 yellow, and some of the quill feathers, and of those on the 

 shoulders, white. Mr. Macgillivray records another, shot in 

 the county of Linlithgow, of a greyish white colour, the 

 margins of the feathers pale brownish red, the bill and feet 

 pale. 



