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YELLOW BUNTING. 
like the last, and does not collect into flocks com- 
posed solely of its own species. The nest is 
generally placed on some bank amidst herbage or 
brush, by the root of a hedge or other cover. It 
is formed of small roots or dried grasses, lined 
with hair and the finer grasses. The eggs are 
pale purplish white, with lines and blotches irre- 
gularly dispersed. We are not aware of any 
extra European locality for the Yellow Bunting ; 
and middle or temperate Europe seems to be its 
strong hold, decreasing as we gain either of the 
extremes. 
In the male, the principal colours are shades ot 
gamboge yellow and brown. The head, cheeks, 
and under parts are of the latter colour, varied 
on the head and cheeks with olive green, which, 
though irregularly marked, has a disposition to 
run in two lines over the head, another through 
the eye, and a third under the auriculars. On 
the throat and centre of the belly the colour is 
nearly unspotted. The back is yellowish brown, 
varying somewhat in intensity ; the centre of each 
feather broadly streaked with blackish brown ; 
the rump and upper tail coverts brownish orange, 
having the shafts of the feathers dark and con- 
spicuous, and their tips of a grayish yellow ; 
quills are nearly black, edged narrowly with 
gamboge yellow ; secondaries and coverts brown- 
ish black, broadly margined with brownish 
orange ; tail brownish black, edged with pale 
brownish orange, the two outer feathers tipped 
with white on the inner webs. The females have 
