17 

 EMBERIZA CITRINELLA. 



Syst. Nat. 309. 



YELLO W-HAMMER. 



PLATE XVII. 



he bill is straight, sharp-pointed, of a pale yellow 

 at the base, black at the tip. It has a rising angle on 

 the lower chap, as in that of the bunting, and the rest 

 of the genus. The eyes are brown. The tongue short 

 and thick. The whole head, cheeks, and upper part of 

 the neck is of a bright yellow in the cock bird, each 

 feather having a dash or line of black down its shaft. 

 In some birds there are touches and strains of orange 

 colour amongst the yellow. The feathers on the back 

 are a mixture of olive, green, and orange colour, with 

 a black dash down the middle of each. The lower 

 part of the back is of a tawny orange colour. 



The first quill feathers of the wing are of a dusky 

 black, with yellow edges. The second also are black, 

 but with broad margins o^ difulvus brown. 



The tail is a little forked, consisting of twelve feath- 

 ers, with yellow-green edges. The two exterior feathers 

 on each side have a large white spot on their inner 

 webs. 



The throat is yellow. The breast yellow -green, with 

 orange strains down the feathers. The belly and cov- 

 ert feathers beneath the tail, are yellow. 



The legs and feet are horn colour, the claws black. 



The hen differs from the cock, in that her colours 

 are much duller in all parts, and in having the head, 

 &;c. of a brown green, where the cock is yellow. 



