ClafsII. YELLOW-HAMMER. 3,9 



II. The YELLOW-HAMMER. 



•Belon av. 366. Embertea citrinella. Lin. fyjl. 



Emberiza flava. Ge/nera^.6^. 309. 



Cia pagglia ricoa, Luteal alte- Gioning, Golfpink. Taun. Suec. 



rum genus. Aldr. a<v. ii, 372. /p. 230. 



Wil. orn. 268. Ammering, Goldzmmering, Kram. 



iRaiifyn. a<v. 93. 370- 



LeBruant. Brtjfon av. iii. 258. Br.Zool. 112. 

 •i7. ?»/. 30. f. 2. 



THIS fpecies makes a large flat neft on the 

 ground, near or under a bufh or hedge ; the 

 materials are mofs, dried roots and horfe hair inter- 

 woven. It lays fix eggs of a white color, veined with 

 a dark purple: is one of our commoneft birds, and 

 in winter frequents our farm yards with other fmall 

 birds. 



The bill is of a dusky hue : the crown of the D e f cr , 

 head is of a pleafant pale yellow ; in fome almoft 

 plain, in others fpotted with brown : the hind part of 

 the neck is tinged with green : the chin and throat 

 are yellow : the breaft is marked with an orange red: 

 the belly yellow : the lefiTer coverts of the wings are 

 green ; the others dusky, edged with ruft, color : the 

 back of the fame colors : the rump of a rufty red: 

 the quil-feathers dufky, their exterior fides edged 

 with yellowifti green : the tail is a little forked ; the 

 middle feathers are brown* the two middlemoft 

 edged on both fides with green ; the others on their 

 exterior fides only : the interior fides of the two out- 

 moft feathers are marked obliquely near their ends 

 with white. 



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