. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . e oldby their having the dark markings more elongated. Remarks.—Having before me two fine specimens shot bymyself to-day (15th March), which exhibit a very remarkabledifference as to size, I am induced to offer a few remarks onthis subject. One of them in fact appears a giant comparedwith the other. Their dimensions are as follows. Length toend
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . e oldby their having the dark markings more elongated. Remarks.—Having before me two fine specimens shot bymyself to-day (15th March), which exhibit a very remarkabledifference as to size, I am induced to offer a few remarks onthis subject. One of them in fact appears a giant comparedwith the other. Their dimensions are as follows. Length toend of tail 8j\, 7i ; extent of wings 18i, 111% ; bill along theridge y|, y| ; wing from flexure 4j;^2, Sj\; tail 3^, 2{ J ; tar-sus 1, iJ ; hind toe j%, y| ; its claw j%, j% ; third toe ^§, | ;its claw j%, j|. Similar differences exist in most of our nativebirds ; but it would manifestly be absurd to found specific dis-tinctions upon them. These two Buntings are precisely similarin colouring, only the bill of the large individual has the lowermandible more vellow. 445 EMBERIZA CITRINELLA. YELLOW BUNTING. YELLOW HAMMER. YELLOW YELDRING OR YOLDRING. YELLOW YITE, YOLKRING, OR YELDROCK. SKITE. DEVILS Emberiza Citrinella. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 309. Emberiza Citrinella. Lath. Ind. Orn. T. 400. Bruant Jaune. Emberiza Citrinella. Temm, Man. dOni. I. 304. Yellow Bunting. Emberiza Citrinella. Selb. Illustr. L 288. Emberiza Citrinella. Yellow Bunting. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 131. Back and icings bright red, the central parts of each featherhroicnish-hlack. Male icith the head and throat bright yellow,the feathers of its upper part tipped icith black, the breast brown-ish-red. Female with the yellow of the head obscured by duskyand brown, the breast pale greyish-broicn, Male.—The Yellow Bunting, although neither inelegant inform, nor deficient in richness of colouring, is so common thatit attracts little attention. It is smaller and proportio
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