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and twigs, and neatly lined with fine grass, fibrous roots, and 
hair, is placed on the ground or in the lower part of a bush. 
The eggs, four or five, are purplish- white, marked with linear 
and angular streaks, and a few irregular dots of black ; their 
length about ten-twelfths, their breadth eight-twelfths. 
Yellow Hammer. Yellow Yeldring or Yoldring. Yellow 
Yowley. Yellow Yite, Yeldrock, or Yolkring. Skite. Devil’s 
Bird. 
Emberiza Citrinella, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 309. — Emberiza 
Citrinella, Temm. Man. d^Ornith. i. 304. — Emberiza Citri- 
nella, Yellow Bunting, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, i. 445. 
115. Emberiza Cirlus. Girl Bunting. 
Male with the back and wings bright red, the central part 
of each feather brownish-black, the head and throat black ; a 
band over the eye, another beneath it, and a crescent-shaped 
patch on the fore neck, bright yellow ; lower part of neck all 
round dull green; fore part of breast and sides yellowish- 
red, the rest yellow. Female with the head greenish-brown 
streaked with black, the upper parts as in the male, the lower 
yellowish, the breast and sides streaked with brown. 
Male, 6^, . ., 3^, Female, 6^. 
The Girl Bunting was first described as British by Mon- 
tagu, and has repeatedly been found in the southern counties 
of England, where it is permanently resident. It is said to in- 
habit the southern parts of the European Continent, and not 
to migrate northward. Its habits are similar to those of the 
Yellow Bunting, and the male has a shrill piercing song of 
the same nature. In England, the nest, generally placed in 
furze, or some other low bush, is composed of dry stalks, roots, 
and a little moss, and lined with long hair and fibrous roots. 
The eggs, four or five, are greyish- white, with irregular dusky 
lines. 
Emberiza Cirlus, Linn. Syst. i. 311. — ^ Emberiza Cirlus, 
Temm. Man. d’Ornith. i. 313. — Emberiza Cirlus, Girl Bun- 
ting, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, i. 450. 
116. Emberiza HORTULANA. Ortolan Bunting. 
Head and neck greenish-grey, spotted with dusky ; throat, 
space around the eye, and a band from the bill downwards, 
yellow ; upper parts reddish-grey, with black spots ; lower 
part of neck, breast, and abdomen brownish-red, the feathers 
tipped with grey. Female with the band over the eyes and 
