PASSERES. 



ORTOLAN. 



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 EMBERIZID.K. 



Embeeiza hortulana, Linnfeus*. 



THE ORTOLAN. 



Emberiza hortulana. 



The Ortolan, or Green -beaded Bunting, as it was called 

 when described and figured in 1776 by Brown in his ' Illus- 

 trations of Zoology' (p. 74, pi. 30), from a living specimen 

 taken in Marylebone Fields, and then in the possession of 

 Mr. Moon in Hyde Park, is a bird that for many years 

 caused great confusion in the minds of English ornithologists. 

 The example, just mentioned, when it died, was given to 

 Tunstall (Synops. Newc. Mus. p. 68) from whose collection 

 Latham (Gen. Synops. B. ii. p. 211) again described it, with- 

 out knowing its history, and upon his redescription, Gmelin, 

 in 1788, founded his Emberiza cliloroccphala (Syst., Nat. i. 



Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 309 (170(5). 



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