76 YELLOW HAMMER 
In Ireland the Corn Bunting is generally common in the 
coast districts. It is resident in Galloway (in Wigtownshire 
specially abundant). In north-western England it is local, 
and to some extent migratory, but nests at Walney, St. 
Bees, and other localities within that area. It is abundant 
in west Carnarvonshire. It is a common bird on all the 
Scottish islands on which cultivation exists. 
EMBERIZA CITRINELLA, Linns YELLOW 
HAMMER. 
Manx, *Ushag wee (Cr.) ; Ushag-vuigh (M. 8. D.)=yellow 
bird. (Cf. Sc. Gaelic, Burdheag ; Irish, Buidheog.) 
As the Chaffinch in the better wooded and shaded dis- 
tricts, so is this species in the more bare and open, but 
yet fenced and cultivated lands, the most abundant of 
small birds. Like the last-noticed Bunting, its habits 
make it very conspicuous along the summer roads, and it 
has what the other lacks, a rich colouring of plumage, 
vying in brightness with the blossoms of the gorse on 
which it loves to sit. In the farmyards and the environs 
of villages it is also one of the most numerous of the birds 
which congregate in winter. 
Mr. Graves found a nest on September 1, 1888, at 
Ballagawne, Arbory, with two fresh eggs. 
The Yellow Hammer is common over Ireland, as gener- 
ally in Great Britain. In the outer isles of Scotland it is 
known principally on migration, but has of late increased in 
Orkney, where it breeds. 
