294 INSESSORES. EMBERIZA. ORTOLAN-BUNTING. 



orange. Two outer tail feathers having the anterior 

 part of their inner webs white ; the rest being black, 

 edged with yellowish-grey. Legs and toes pale brown 

 with a tinge of flesh red. 



The female has the head oil-green, with spots of a darker 

 shade. Above the eye is a dull yellow streak, passing 

 down the side of the head. Chin and throat yellowish- 

 brown, streaked with darker brown. Belly and sides 

 primrose-yellow, with large dusky streaks. Upper parts 

 like the male bird, but with the colours not so bright. 



ORTOLAN- BUNTING. 



EMBERIZA HORTULANA. 

 PLATE C. FIG. 7. 



Emberiza Hortulana, Linn. 1. 309. 4 Gmel. Syst. 1. 869 Lath. Ind Orn. 



1. 399. sp. 5. 



Hortulanus, Briss. 3. 269. 4 Rail Syn. 94. 6 Will. 197. t. 40. 

 Emberiza Tunstalli, Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 418. sp. 69. 

 Emberiza chlorocephala, Gmel. Syn. 1. 887. 

 I/Ortolan, Buff. Ois. 1. 305. t. 14 Id. PL Enl. 247. 1. male. 

 Bruant Ortolan, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 1. 311. 

 Garten Ammer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 3. 283 Meyer , Tasschenb. Deut. 1. 



183. 

 Ortolan-Bunting, Arct. Zool. 2. 367. D Albin, 3. t. 50 Lath. Syn. 3. 



166. 5 Id. sup. 157 



Green-headed Bunting, Lath. Syn. 3. 211. 61 Lewirfs Br. Birds, 2. t. 76. 



Bewick's Br. Birds, Ed. 1826. p. t. 170 



ALTHOUGH this species has not hitherto been included in 

 the list of British Birds, it would appear, that it has long 



Occasional k een entitled to rank, as an occasional visitant : if we are to 



Visitant. 



consider Emberiza Tunstalli of LATHAM, (Emb. chloroce- 

 phala of GMELIN), and the Green-headed Bunting 1 figured 

 and described by BROWN, (and which was caught in Mary- 

 la-Bonne fields) as being the same, of which I think there 

 can be little or no doubt entertained, upon comparing the 

 descriptions of these individuals with that of Emb. Hortu- 

 lana, by TEMMINCK and other continental authors. That 



