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EMBERIZA HORTULANA. THE ORTOLAN 

 BUNTING. 



Emberiza Hortulana. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 309- 



Emberiza Hortulana, Lath. Ind. Orn. L .399. 



Bruant Ortolan. Emberiza Hortulana. Temm. Man. d'Om. I. SIL 



Ortolan-Bunting. Emberiza Hortulana. Selb. lllustr. I. 294. 



Emberiza Hortulana. Ortolan Bunting. Jen. Brit. Vert, An. 132. 



Head and neck greenish-grey^ s2:>otted ivith dusky ; throaty 

 space around the eye^ and a hand from the hill doicmcards^ yel- 

 low ; the upper parts reddish^ u'ith hlack spots, 



A FEW individuals of this species liaA^ng been obtained in 

 England, it has been admitted into the Catalogue of British 

 Birds by Messrs. Selby, Jenyns, and other ornithologists. Not 

 having seen any of these, I can only give here the distinctive 

 characters of the species, from M. Temminck's Manual. 



^Iale. — ^' Throat, space around the eyes, and a narrow band 

 proceeding from the angle of the bill, yellow ; these two yellow 

 sj^aces separated by a blackish-grey mark ; head and neck 

 olivaceous-grey with small brown spots ; feathers of the upper 

 parts of a reddish-grey on their borders, and black in the 

 middle ; breast, belly, and abdomen, bay red, all the feathers 

 of these parts tipped with grey ; tail blackish ; the two outer 

 feathers having their inner webs white to a great extent ; bill 

 and feet flesh-colour ; iris brown. Lengrth 6 inches 3 lines." 



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Female. — " The female is smaller ; the band over the eyes 

 and the throat pale yellow ; the breast marked with large brown 

 spots ; the other lower parts of a whitish-red ; a great number 

 of brown spots on the head and neck ; all the upper parts more 

 faintly coloured."' 



