PLATE IV. 
The Yellow- Hammer » 
Is one of our moft common birds, and like the Chaffinches feeds on feeds, and flocks with them in 
the winter. But in the fpring of the year we fee them only in pairs ; and it is then they begin tO 
fmg : their note confifts but of a few ftrokes, and is rather melancholy. Their feathers are long, 
and differ in colour according to their age, as it has been remarked in the preface. Their nefts are 
built on the fide of a bank, and are compofed of dried flat grafs, lined with horfe-hair. Their eggs, 
which are generally five in number, are beautifully veined with purple, as defcribed in the plate. 
They raife, or lay down the feathers on their head at pleafure ; and are very flrong and vigorous, 
and capable of fupporting the mofl fevere winter ; of which circumflance the numbers, which appear 
in the coldefl feafon, afford an ample proof. 
No. 11. 
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