BunrTIne. PASSERES. EMBERIZA. Q44 
¥ Yellow Bunting.—Emberiza citrinella, Linn. 
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PLATE 52. Figs. 2, 3. 
Emberiza citrinella, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 309. 5.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 870. sp. 5. 
—Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. p. 400. sp. 7.—Raii, Syn. p. 93. A. 2.—Will. 
p- 196. t. 40. 
Emberiza flava, Briss. 3. p. 258. 1. 
Le Bruant, Buff. Ois. v. 4. p. 342. t. 8.—Jd. Pl. 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. 
y. 1. p. 178.—Id. Vig. 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.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 2. t. 73.—Lath. Syn. v. 3. p. 170. 
—Mont. Ornith. Dict. 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 
incorrect 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 bemg 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.—It builds in 
low bushes, or upon the ground under a tuft of grass, of Nest, &c. 
which herbage the nest is externally formed, succeeded by a 
_ layer of finer grasses, and finished with a lining of hair. It 
_ lays from three to five eggs, of a pale purplish white, with 
streaks and waving lines of chocolate-red, which frequently 
terminate in spots of the same colour. It breeds later than 
most of our indigenous birds, and the young are seldom able 
to fly before the beginning of June. In winter Yellow Ham- 
mers collect together, and associate with the other granivo. 
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