132 AVES INSESSORES. [EMBERIZA. 



E. Cirlus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 313. Girl Bunting, Mont. 

 Orn. Diet, and Supp. with fig. Id. in Linn. Trans, vol. vn. 

 p. 276. Selb. Illust. vol. i. p. 292. pi. 52. f. 4. Bew. Brit. Birds, 

 vol. i. p. 174. 



DIMENS. Entire length six inches six lines. MONT. 



DESCRIPT. (Male in Summer.) Crown of the head, and nape of the 

 neck, olivaceous green, with a dusky streak in the centre of each fea- 

 ther; throat, and a narrow hand through the eye reaching from the 

 bill to the ear-coverts, black ; streak above the eye, and another below 

 it, bright primrose-yellow; a gorget of the same colour encircling the 

 lower part of the neck : breast, immediately below the gorget, yellowish 

 gray, inclining to olive green : back and scapulars fine chestnut brown, 

 the former streaked with dusky ; rump olivaceous brown : belly and vent 

 bright yellow ; sides of the breast and abdomen brownish red : tail with 

 the two middle feathers chestnut brown ; the rest black, the two outer 

 ones obliquely marked with white : bill bluish gray : feet brown, with 

 a tinge of flesh red. In Winter, the black on the throat is more dull, 

 the feathers edged with pale yellow. (Female.) Head and nape oliva- 

 ceous brown, with numerous spots of a darker colour ; above the eye 

 a dull yellow streak, passing down the sides of the head : chin whitish ; 

 the rest of the under parts pale yellow ; the breast spotted with reddish ; 

 the sides, and under tail-coverts, with large dusky streaks : upper parts as 

 in the male bird, but the colours not so bright, and the spots on the back 

 larger. (Egg.) Dirty white, streaked and speckled with dark liver-brown : 

 long. diam. ten lines ; trans, diam. eight lines. 



Not uncommon in Devonshire, and in one or two of the adjoining 

 counties, where it was first observed by Montagu. Is also found in 

 the Isle of Wight, but is scarcely known in other parts of England. 

 Song and habits somewhat similar to those of the last species. Nest 

 placed in a low bush ; composed of dry stalks, roots, and a little moss, 

 and lined with long hair and fibrous roots. Eggs four or five; laid 

 early in May. Congregates in the winter season with Chaffinches, 

 and Yellow Buntings. Said to feed on the berries of the Solanum. 



90. E. Hortulana, Linn. (Ortolan Bunting.) Head 

 and neck olive-gray, obscurely spotted with dusky brown ; 

 throat, orbits, and a narrow streak from the corner of 

 the bill downwards, greenish yellow. 



E. Hortulana, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 311. Green-headed 

 Bunting, Brown, Illust. of Zool. p. 74. pi. 30. Lewin, Brit. 

 Birds, vol. n. pi. 76. Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 170. Ortolan 

 Bunting, Selb. Illust. vol. i. p. 294. pi. 100. f. 7. 



DIMENS. Entire length six inches six lines : length of the bill (from 

 the forehead) four lines and three-quarters, (from the gape) five lines and 

 a half; of the tarsus eight lines and a half; of the tail two inches eight 

 lines ; from the carpus to the end of the wing three inches five lines. 



DESCRIPT. (Male.) Head and neck olivaceous green, with a tinge of 

 ash-gray, obscurely spotted with dusky brown ; throat, circle round the 

 eyes, and a broadish streak passing downwards from the corner of the 

 bill, greenish yellow : feathers on the back, rump, scapulars, and wing- 

 coverts, deep brown in the middle, reddish at the edges ; those on the 

 breast, belly, and abdomen, chestnut red, edged with ash-gray : quills 

 and tail dusky brown ; the former with pale edges ; the latter with the 



