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CIRL BUNTING. 



FRENCH YELLOW-HAMMER. BLACK-THROATED 

 YELLOW-HAMMER. 



PLATE LXXIX. FIG. I. 



Emheriza cirlus, . . Pennant. Montagu. Bewick. 



Emheriza elcathorax . . 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 lining. E,. 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. 



