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ORTOLAN. 



OETOLAN BUjSTTESTGL 



Emleriza hortulana, LINNAEUS. LATHAM. 



" " SELBY. JENYNS. GOULD. 



" c/tlorocephala, MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



" tunstalli, LATHAM. 



Emberiza ? Hortulana Of, or pertaining to gardens. 



Hortus A garden. 



Tins is an abundant species in many parts of the European 

 continent, and is found also in plenty on the northern shores 

 of Africa, as well as in Asia Minor, Central Asia, and the 

 East Indies. In Europe, it occurs plentifully in France, 

 Spain, and the other southern countries that border on the 

 Mediterranean, occasionally in Holland, and also in Denmark, 

 Sweden, and Norway, where it even produces its young; and 

 in Lapland. 



A specimen of this bird was taken off the Yorkshire coast, 

 in the month of May, 1822, by the master of a merchant 

 vessel ; Bewick says that about the same time a pair were seen 

 in the garden at Cherry-burn, on the banks of the Tyne. 

 Another possessed by Marmaduke Tunstal, Esq., had been 

 taken some time previously, in St. Mary-la-bonne Fields, 

 London, by a bird-catcher; a third was killed near Manchester, 

 in November, 1827; and a fourth was caught near London, 

 in company with Yellow Buntings, by another member of the 

 above-named fraternity. 'La mala compagnia e quella che 

 mena uomini alia furca;' 'Bad company leads to the gallows,' 

 says the Italian proverb, and the Ortolan Bunting is not the 

 first that has experienced the truth of it. In the 'Account 

 of the Birds found in Norfolk/ by John Henry Gurney and 



