yellowammer

[See extract under YELLOW IMG:content-1091.png:[blocks in formation] plumage. 2. Dendroica æstiva, common throughout the United States. Length about five inches; head and lower parts bright yellow, rest of upper parts olive yellow; back, breast, and sides streaked with brownish-red; two yellow bands on wings. Called also the Yellow-Poll Warbler and Summer Yellow Bird. The Cow-bird often deposits one of its parasitic eggs in the nest of the Summer Yellow Bird, which being unable to eject the large strange egg, pecks a hole in it and buries it at the bottom of the nest. If by chance the Cow-bird visits the same nest a second time, the egg is again buried, and thus are formed the three-storied nests occasionally found by egg hunters. ( Ripley & Dana .) IMG:content-1092.png:[blocks in formation] 1 *2. Fig .: A gold coin; a yellow-boy. ( Slang .) "Is that he that hath gold enough? Would I had some of his yellow hammers!"-Shirley: Bird in a Cage. yellow Hercules, s . Botany : A plant, Xanthoxyl on clava Herculis , meaning the club or cudgel of Hercules. So called are often made into walking-sticks. 1. Yellow-fever. ( Colloq .) 2. The flag displayed from lazarettos, naval hos pitals, and ve els in quarantine. yellow-jacket, s. A small species of wasp with an exceedingly painful sting. where the air is dry and a good circulation is main- tained. They are seldom taken into the system in food or drink, but usually enter the lungs with the air, and persons catch the disease from being in an infected region, attending patients, or handling clothing or bedding that has been used by one having the fever. Any exposure that produces a chill is apt to precipitate the attack when other circumstances are propitious. Hence, in a tropical climate, chilling is far more to be avoided than getting too hot. When the fever first makes its at- tack it behaves so much like some other maladies that it cannot be recognized with certainty. Espe- cially is it likely to be confounded with malarial fever or with dengue. But there are some dis- tinguishing symptoms. Malaria is likely to make bound in yellow paper covers, hence the name itself known by a severe chill; yellow fever is often "yellow journal." accompanied by one so light that it is hardly noticed. In the former disease a good deal of bile is vomited and only a little in the latter. Dengue, a mild fever common in the Southern States, is ac- Bot.: Gelsemium sempervirens. [GELSEMIUM.] yellow journal, s . newspaper. Sensational literature was formerly yellow-lake, s . Various pigments of a bright color, not affected by an impure atmosphere, but rapidly altering under the influence of oxygen and light. ( Weale .) yellow-legged clear-wing, s. Entom.: A British Hawk Moth, Trochilium cyni- Ornith.: The Yellow-shanked Sandpiper (q. v.). "The well-known Yellow - legs of Eastern sportsmen has feeds on beech. yellow-loosestrife, s . physician who discovered the yellow fever microbe, finds that there are at least three po-sible causes of death in a case of yellow fever. He notices that the bacilli which are characteristic of other diseases are frequently a ociated with those of yellow fever caterpillar, which is reddish-brown with white dots, in the bodies of the patients; and he thinks that in some instances the fever runs its course without serious harm and that then the microbes of the other malady put in their appearance and carry the patient off. Secondly, there are deaths in conse- quence of the poison produced in the system by the bacillus of the fever. These are direct consequences of the disease, of course. Thirdly, it often happens that enough injury is done to the kidneys by the yellow fever germs to cause uræmic poisoning. One attack of the disease protects against subsequent seizures. yellow-metal, s. A sheathing alloy of copper, 2; zinc, 1. [MUNTZ-METAL.] yellow-nuphar, s. The yellow water-lily, Nu- phar luteum or lutea . [NUPHAR.] Chem.: An argillaceous earth, colored by an ad- mixture of oxide of iron. When finely ground, it is used as a pigment. yellow-orpiment, s. [ORPIMENT.] yellow ox-eye, s . IMG:content-1093.png:[blocks in formation] grow in the United States. yellow pocket-mouse, s . Zool.: Cricetodipus flavus , a minute rodent, from the Rocky Mountains. Its fur is pale buff. yellow-race, s . Ornith.: Emberiza citrin ell a , widely distributed over Europe and North America. Length about seven inches; general color bright, with patches of dark brown, richly-mottled brownish-yellow on back, with a warm ruddy tinge; primaries black, edged with yellow; chin, throat, and under part of body bright, pure yellow turning to dusky-brown on the flanks; tail slightly forked, and shorter than in Chinese, Japanese, Mongols, Lapps, Esquimaux, the Common Bunting. The female is similarly . marked, but le br ght in hue. The Yellow-hammer frequents hedges and low trees; it nests on the ground, and the male a ists in incubation. The belongs to the order Scrophulariacese, or figworts, song consists of few notes, but is sweet and pleasing. IMG:content-1094.png:[blocks in formation] tyellow-warbler, s. Ornith.: Phyllos cop us († Sylvia , Motacilla ) tro chilus, the Willow-wren (q. v.). (Pennant: Brit. Zool ., i. 511.) *yellow-wash, s . Chem.: A lotion for ulcers. It was made by the decomposition of corrosive sublimate in lime water.