222 TREATISE or* 



YELLOW BCTNTING. 



YELLOW HAMMER. 



EMBERIZA CITRINELLA; LINNAEUS. LE BRUANT; 



BUFFON. 



This well-known bird, though rather showy 

 in its plumage, and very inoffensive in its habits, 

 meets a foe in every school-boy. Persecuted wher- 

 ever it builds, no sooner has the yellow bunting 

 selected a place for its habitation, however artfully 

 concealed by grass and leaves, than alarm and in- 

 vasion await it and its brood, — to the latter especi- 

 ally, who seem to have inspired so universal a con- 

 tempt in the young lords of creation, that a yellow- 

 hammer, or as it is called in Scotland, a " yellow 

 yite" is a common epithet of abuse for a person 

 who inspires them with ridicule or dislike. This 

 species haunts lanes and hedges, and frequently 



