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ORD. III. GEN. VII. BUNTING. 



SP.E. IV. YELLOW BUNTING. 



PI. 84. 



Emberiza citrinilla. Lin. Syft. I. p. 309. 

 Le Bruant. Brif. Orn. III. p. 258. 



Of this fpecies the bill is horn coloured : eyes dark brown : top of the head, 

 throat, and breaft, yellow ; the crown of the head, and behind the eye, dafhed 

 with dull brown : back and moulders yellow brown, with dark brown dafhes 

 in the middle of the feathers; rump reddifh orange colour; wing coverts black, 

 with chefnut coloured edges ; quills dull black : belly dull white : tail forked, 

 its middle feathers dark brown with paler edges, outer ones white edges ; legs 

 pale brown ; claws black. The wings are Ihort, hardly covering the rump. 



The female is of a dull brown colour without any yellow in the plumage. 



Thefe birds are very common, building their nefts on the fides of the high- 

 ways and lanes, in a tuft of grafs, or at the bottom of a bufh. They feed on 

 grain and various kinds of feeds, and lay four or five eggs, marked with crook- 

 ed lines of a chocolate colour, which character is common to all the eggs of the 

 different fpecies in this genus. Indeed to an obferving perfon there is a gene- 

 ral conformity in the colouring, and markings of the birds eggs of the different 

 genufes, perfectly agreeing with the arrangement of the birds by that truly 

 great naturalift Linnaeus. 



For the egg, fee PI. XIX. Fig. 4. 



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