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YELLOW-HAMMER. 



YELLOW BUNTING, YELLOW YOWLEY. 



YELLOW YELDRIKG. YEJ.LOW YOLUKIISIG. YELLOW YITE. 



YELDROCK. YOLKRING, YOIT. SKITE. GOLDIE. 



PLATE LXXVIII. 



Umleriza cUrinella, . . Pennant. Montagxt. 

 Emhenza jiava, . . . Beisson. 



The nest, which is rather bulky, is usually placed either 

 on or very near to the ground, on a bank, or sheltered 

 by some bush, among the twigs, or in a clump of grass, 

 or tuft of other herbage. It is formed of moss, small 

 roots, small sticks, and hair, tolerably well compacted 

 together ; the finer parts of the materials being of course 

 inside. The late William Thompson, Esq., of Belfast, 

 knew one in the middle of a field; he also relates that 

 in the garden of a friend of his near that town, a pair 

 of these birds built their nest at the edge of a gravel 

 walk, and brought out four young, three of which being 

 destroyed, the nest was removed with the fourth one 

 for greater safety to a bank a few feet distant, and 

 the old birds still kept to it, and completed the edu- 

 cation of their last nestling. Mr. Black wall mentions 

 in the first volume of the "Zoological Journal," his 

 having known an instance in which, in the month of 

 June, the female laid her eggs upon the bare ground, 

 sat upon and hatched them ; and Mr. Salmon, of That- 



