288 INSESSORES. EMBERIZA. Bunting. 



same. Legs and claws pale wood-brown, with a tinge 

 of pink. 

 The female resembles the male. 



YELLOW BUNTING. 



Embebiza citrinella, Linn. 

 PLATE LII. Figs. 2. 3. 



Emberiza citrinella, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 309. 5 — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 870. sp. 5. 

 —Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. l.'p. 400. sp. 7 — Rati Syn. p. 93. A. 2 — Will. 

 p. 196. t. 40. 



Emberiza flava, Briss. 3. p. 258. 1. 



Le Bruant, Biiff. Ois. v. 4. p. 342. t. 8 — Id. PI. Enl. 30. f. 1. 



Bruant jaune, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 304. 



Goldammer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 252 — Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 

 V. 1. p. 178. — Id. Vog. Deut. 9. male and female — Frisch. t. 5. A. and B. 



Yellow Bunting, Br. Zool. No. 119. t. 50 — Arct. Zool. 2. p. 367. C — 



—Albin. V. 1. t. 66 Lewiyi's Br. Birds, 2. t. 73 — Lath. Syn. v. 3. p. 170. 



— Mont. Ornith. Diet. v. 1 — Wale. Syn. 2. t. 212 Bewick's Br. Birds, 



V. 1. p. t. 143. — Shaw's Zool. v. 9. p. 351. t. 55. and 56, both figures in- 

 correct copies. 



Provincial — Yellow Hammer, Yellow Yowley. 



Few of our indigenous birds possess a plumage of more 

 delicate tints than the Yellow Hammer, but from being a 

 very abundant species in all parts of the kingdom, it passes 

 the eye of the common observer almost unnoticed, and it is 

 perhaps by the naturalist alone that its elegant intermixture 

 of shades is duly appreciated. It occurs most plentifully in 

 corn districts, and its geographical distribution does not ap- 

 pear to be extended so far northward as that of the Common 

 Bunting, from its not being enumerated in the Fauna of the 

 Orkneys. Its usual note-call is a short chirp, and its song 

 in the pairing season is as little attractive as in others of its 

 genus, consisting merely of the same note repeated five or six 

 times, and concluded with one in a higher key. 

 Nest, &c. It builds in low bushes, or upon the ground under a tuft 

 of grass, of which herbage the nest is externally formed, suc- 

 ceeded by a layer of finer grasses, and finished with a lining 



