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and twigs, and neatly lined with fine grass, fibrous roots, and 

 hair, is placed 011 the ground or in the lower part of a bush. 

 The eggs, four or five, are purplish-white, marked with linear 

 and angular streaks, and a few irregular dots of black ; their 

 length about ten-twelfths, their breadth eight-twelfths. 



Yellow Hammer. Yellow Yeldring or Yoldring. Yellow 

 Yowley. Yellow Yite, Yeldrock, or Yolkring. Skite. Devil's 

 Bird. 



Emberiza Citrinella, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 309. Emberiza 

 Citrinella, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. i. 304. Emberiza Citri- 

 nella, Yellow Bunting, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, i. 445. 



115. EMBERIZA CIRLUS. GIRL BUNTING. 



Male with the back and wings bright red, the central part 

 of each feather brownish-black, the head and throat black ; a 

 band over the eye, another beneath it, and a crescent-shaped 

 patch on the fore neck, bright yellow ; lower part of neck all 

 round dull green; fore part of breast and sides yellowish- 

 red, the rest yellow. Female with the head greenish-brown 

 streaked with black, the upper parts as in the male, the lower 

 yellowish, the breast and sides streaked with brown. 



Male, 6|, . . , 3, T \, fo T V, T 3 *. Female, 6J. 



The Girl Bunting was first described as British by Mon- 

 tagu, and has repeatedly been found in the southern counties 

 of England, where it is permanently resident. It is said to in- 

 habit the southern parts of the European Continent, and not 

 to migrate northward. Its habits are similar to those of the 

 Yellow Bunting, and the male has a shrill piercing song of 

 the same nature. In England, the nest, generally placed in 

 furze, or some other low bush, is composed of dry stalks, roots, 

 and a little moss, and lined with long hair and fibrous roots. 

 The eggs, four or five, are greyish-white, with irregular dusky 

 lines. 



Emberiza Cirlus, Linn. Syst. i. 311. Emberiza Cirlus, 

 Temm. Man. d'Ornith. i. 313. Emberiza Cirlus, Girl Bun- 

 ting, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, i. 450. 



116. EMBERIZA HORTULANA. ORTOLAN BUNTING. 



Head and neck greenish-grey, spotted with dusky ; throat, 

 space around the eye, and a band from the bill downwards, 

 yellow ; upper parts reddish-grey, with black spots ; lower 

 part of neck, breast, and abdomen brownish-red, the feathers 

 tipped with grey. Female with the band over the eyes and 



