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DeserivYrion. 
FEMALE. 
Place ANB 
MANNERS. 
Bey Up Nt -@ a Ny G: 
Emberiza citrinella, Liz. Syf. 1. p. 309. 5. — Faun. Suec. N° 230. — Scop. 
gan.i. N° 209.—Muller, p. 252.—Frifeh. p\. 5.—Ovin. uc. pl, in p. 50. 
Kram. el. p. 370. 1-—-Georgi Reife, p. 174. 
Le Bruant, Brif. orz. iii. p. 258. be — Buf. oif. iv. p. 342. pl. 8. — Pl. ent. 
Blebes biliq ; 
¥ellow-hammer, Raii Syn. p. 93. Ae 2.—Will. orn. p. 268. pl. 40. — Albin. 
i. pl. 66.—Br. Zool. N° 119. pl. 50.—Aré. Zool. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf, 
ENGTH fix inches and a quarter. Bill dufky: irides 
hazel : crown of the head of a beautiful pale, and in fome 
birds of a full yellow *: nape greenifh: cheeks yellow: over the 
eyes a brownifh ftripe, paffing backwards: the hind part of the 
neck, and upper parts of the body, are blackifh down the fhaft, 
rufous on the fides, and fringed with grey: rump pale tawny: 
chin, and under parts, yellow, inclining to reddifh on the breaft, 
and dafhed with dufky on the fides: the wings are reddifh 
brown, olive, or dufky, mixed, and edged chiefly with grey: the 
tail brown, a little forked; the two middle feathers edged with 
grey, the ethers outwardly with olive, except at the ends, where 
the margin is grey ;. the outermoft of all edged with white; and. 
a fpot of white on the two outer ones, juft at the tip : the legs. 
are yelHowifh brown. 
The female is much duller in colour, and has very little yellow 
about the head. ; 
I believe this to be full as common as any of our Britifh birds, 
and known by every fchool-boy to make a neft compofed of hay, 
* In fome birds the crown is dafhed with brown, and in others I have feen it 
quite brown, furrounded with a wreath of deep yellow. 
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