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YELLOW-HAMMER. 
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Dej 'crip lion and Character. 
"T’L is equal to the Chaffinch in bignefs : both 
JL cock and hen are beautiful birds ; and the 
cock will fing very prettily, when in the fields, 
but is not kept very commonly in a cage ; yet he 
is no contemptible bird ; befides his fong, his 
fne feathers are enough to recommend him : a 
lovely yellow adorns his head, throat, bread, 
and belly ; his back and wings are pretty much 
like the Linnet’s. The hen is of a paler co- 
lour ail over her body, and the parts that are 
of a fine yellow in the cock, in the hen arc cf 
a dirty green. 
Thefe birds build upon the ground, at the 
fide of a river, pond, or brook ; they make a 
large, flat, ordinary neft, with mofs, dried roots 
of grafs, weeds, &c. with horfe-hair intermixed ; 
more of the latter than. I ever obferved any other 
bird to make ufe of. She lays fix or feven white 
eggs, veined and fpotted with black. Her yourm 
ones are ufuaily fit to take by the beginning of 
Majpj you may let them be ten or twelve daws 
