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Identifier: birdsofbritain00bonh (find matches)
Title: Birds of Britain
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Bonhote, J. Lewis (John Lewis), 1875-1922 Dresser, Henry Eeles, 1838-1915
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ed,after the manner characteristic of this family, with purplishred. In autumn the young and old visit the standing cropsin family parties, and they pass the winter seeking theirfood on the ground in stubbles and fallows or visiting thestack-yards for the fallen grain. The male has the head, throat, and under parts brightyellow, spotted or streaked, except on the throat, with darkbrown. Mantle yellowish brown with darker streaks.Eump reddish brown. Wings brown with broad deeprufous edgings to the secondaries and wing coverts. Tailfeathers dark brown with white spots near the tip ofthe inner web of the two outer pairs. The femaleresembles the male, but it is very much duller and darkerin colour. The young are pale brown all over, lighteron the under parts and more rufous on the back, eachfeather having a dark central stripe. Length 6o in.;wing 3*25 in. This species is widely distributed throughout Great 142 YELLOW BUNTING (YELLOW HAMMER) Embr.riza citrinella Male (below). Young (above)
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■■ I njiWiii iiiniiiiiii.i ■> nj imeummKiyt iMiiiiniPaiii The Yellow Bunting Britain, and is often known as the Yellow Hammer, thelatter word being a corruption of Ammer, the Germanword for a Bunting. THE CIRL BUNTING Emberiza cirlus, Linnaeus This species is very similar to the Yellow Bunting in habitsand plumage, from which it may be most easily distinguishedby the black throat and a black line through the eye. Inour islands, however, it is very local and chiefly confined to the southern counties, but stragglers have been met withas far north as Yorkshire. Although frequenting the hedgerows and open countryit delights in trees, uttering its song from the higherbranches of some hedgerow elm. The nest is placed near the ground and constructed ofsimilar materials to that of the Yellow Bunting, but the eggsdiffer in having the markings bolder and chiefly restricted to the larger end, and the hair lines, so numerous on those ofthe former species, are much fewer in number. Two broo

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