EMBERIZA. 61 



Emberiza hortulana. OKTOLAN BUNTING. 



Emberiza Hortulana, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 309 (1766) . 



Emberiza hortulana, Naum. iv. p. 258 ; Macg. i. p. 457 ; 

 Hewitson, p. 191 ; Gray, p. 103 ; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 502 

 id. ed. 3, i. p. 527; Newton,, ii. p. 57; Harting, p. 27; 

 Dresser, iv. p. 185. 



Glycyspina hortulana, Gould, iii. pi. 27. 



Ortolan Bunting, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 455. 



Hortiddna = of or belonging to a small garden, hortulus, dirnin. of h&rtus. 



Has occurred several times, chiefly in spring and autumn, 

 in the south and east of England ; rarely in Scotland, and 

 never in Ireland. A summer visitor to temperate Europe 

 and Central Asia, breeding as far north as Trondhjem in 

 Norway. Winters in North Africa and Western India. 



Emberiza rustica. RUSTIC BUNTING. 



Emberiza rustica, Pallas, Reis. Russ. Reichs, iii. p. 698 



(1776). 



Emberiza rustica, Naum. xiii. p. 180 ; Neivton, ii. p. 29 ; 

 Gould, iii. pi. 24; Harting, p. Ill ; Dresser, iv. p. 229. 



Rustica = of or belonging to the country, rus. 



Has occurred near Brighton, October 1867, and in York- 

 shire, September 1881 (Wm. Eagle Clarke, Ibis, 1882, p. 182). 

 Breeds in North-eastern Europe and Northern Siberia, 

 straying occasionally into Western Europe. 



Emberiza pusilla. LITTLE BUNTING. 



Emberiza pusilla, Pallas, Reis. Russ. Reichs, iii. p. 697 



(1776). 



Emberiza pusilla, Naum. xiii. p. 175 ; Newton, ii. p. 34 ; 

 Gould, iii. pi. 25 ; Harting, p. Ill ; Dresser, iv. p. 235. 



Pusilla = very small ; from pusus = a little boy. 



Has been caught once near Brighton, November 1864. 

 Breeds in North-eastern Europe and Siberia, and occasionally 



