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CIRL BUNTING. 
FRENCH YELLOW-HAMMER. BLACK-THROATED 
YELLOW-HAMMER. 
PLATE LXXIX.—FIG. I. 
Emberiza cirlus, : g Pennant. Montacu. Berwick. 
Emberiza eleathorax ; . BECHSTEIN. 
THE nest is placed in furze or low bushes, and is 
usually made of dry stalks of grass and a little moss, 
lined with hair and small roots; some are wholly without 
moss or hair, and are composed entirely of the other 
materials, the small roots constituting the liming. R. A 
Julian, Esq., Jun., has known one, containing four eggs, 
which he met with in July, 1850, in a steep bank: it 
may have been a second one of the year. 
The eggs are four or five in number, of a dull 
bluish white, distinctly streaked and speckled with 
dark brown; they vary much in colour and markings. 
The young are hatched in about a fortnight. 
