ORTOLAN BUNTING. 153 
EMBERIZA HORTULANA. 
ORTOLAN BUNTING. 
(Prater 15.) 
Emberiza hortulanus, Briss, Orn, iii. p. 269 (1760) ; Linn. Syst, Nat. i. p. 809 (1766) ; 
et auctorum plurimorum— Gmelin, Latham, Temminck, Bonaparte, Salvadort, 
_ Degland § Gerbe, Dresser, Newton, &e. 
Emberiza meelbyensis, Sparrm. Mus. Carls. pl. 21 (1786). 
Emberiza badensis, G'mel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 873 (1788). 
Emberiza tunstalli, Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. p. 418 (1790). 
Citrinella hortulana (Lriss.), Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 142 (1829). 
Emberiza pinguescens, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 295 (1831). 
Emberiza buchanani, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xiii. p. 957 (1844). 
Euspiza hortulana (Briss.), Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 129 (1849). 
Glycyspina hortulana (Sress.), Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 128 (1850). 
Emberiza shah, Bonap. Consp. i. p. 465 (1850). 
Hortulanus chlorocephalus, Bonap. Cat. Parzud. p. 4 (1856). 
As the Ortolan Bunting is imported alive into England in great numbers 
every year, there can be no doubt that many of the examples captured in 
this country are escaped birds. ‘The first record of the Ortolan Bunting 
in this country is that of a bird figured by Brown in 1776, in his <‘Tllus- 
trations of Zoology,’ which was taken alive in Marylebone Fields, and 
is now in the Newcastle Museum. Another specimen, also in this 
museum, was caught in May 1822 on board a vessel when off the York- 
shire coast. ‘This specimen was figured by Bewick, who also states that a 
pair were seen about this date in a garden at Cherryburn, on the river 
Tyne. In November 1827 a male bird was obtained near Manchester, 
and came into the possession of Yarrell. Since this date, upwards of a 
score of Ortolan Buntings have been obtained in England, of which a 
detailed account is unnecessary. In Scotland it is much rarer than in 
England. Mr. Gray states that the first Scotch specimen of this bird was 
procured in Caithness previous to 1836. In November 1863 two others 
were obtained in Aberdeenshire, said to have been captured in a turnip-field 
near the sea. This species does not yet appear to have been observed in 
Treland. 
The Ortolan Bunting is one of the many species of Palearctic birds 
which find the eastern limit of their distribution in Central Asia. In 
Scandinavia the northern limit of its breeding-range extends to the Arctic 
circle; it has not been recorded from Archangel; and in the Ural 
Mountains it is not found further north than lat. 57°, nor does it appear 
to go further north in the Baltic Provinces. In Siberia, the eastern limit 
of its range appears to be the valley of the Irtish, as far as its source in the 
