. An illustrated manual of British birds . ineweeds which grow on the mud-flats above high-water mark. Adult male : lores, and a line above and behind the eye buffish-white ; ear-patches, head, neck, mantle and upper tail-coverts palehair-brown, streaked with darker brown down the middle of eachfeather ; wing-coverts dark brown with buff margins ; quills dusky-brown ; tail rather lighter brown with pale margins; throat bufiish-white, with brown spots at the side which form a moustache-like streak;remaining under parts buffish-white, freely spotted on the breast andstreaked on the flanks with b
. An illustrated manual of British birds . ineweeds which grow on the mud-flats above high-water mark. Adult male : lores, and a line above and behind the eye buffish-white ; ear-patches, head, neck, mantle and upper tail-coverts palehair-brown, streaked with darker brown down the middle of eachfeather ; wing-coverts dark brown with buff margins ; quills dusky-brown ; tail rather lighter brown with pale margins; throat bufiish-white, with brown spots at the side which form a moustache-like streak;remaining under parts buffish-white, freely spotted on the breast andstreaked on the flanks with brown; bill yellowish-brown, with a darkstripe along the ridge of the upper mandible ; legs pale 7 in. ; wing 3-6 in. The sexes are alike in plumage. Theyoung bird is darker, with broad fulvous margins to the wing-covertsand secondaries, and the under parts are tinged with buff. SomeContinental specimens—especially those from the east—are very palein colour ; while albinistic varieties are not uncommon. EMBERIZIN, THE YELLOW BUNTING. , Lnna^iis. The Yellow Bunting is familiarly known as the Yellow Hammer,the latter portion of the name having, no doubt, a common originwith Ammer, the modern German word for a Bunting; but ourform of spelling has now been in print for upwards of two cen-turies, and few, even among purists, will risk the imputation of asolecism by omitting the aspirate. Throughout the British Islandsthis handsome bird is in most parts common and resident; iteven nests in the Outer Hebrides, and sparingly in the Orkneys,but as yet is not known to do so in the Shetlands, although avisitor to that group. In Norway this species is found breeding up to about 70° N. lat.,hut as we proceed eastward, its northerly summer-range graduallydecreases to only 64° on the Ob, in Siberia. South-eastward, itreaches as far as the upper valley of the Yenesei; while, turning south-westward, we find the bird in Turkestan, Persia and Asia
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