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BRITISH BIRDS. 



THE ORTOLAN BUNTING. 



(Emberiza Hortulana y Linn. B nun it ortolan^ 

 Temm.) 



THE crew of a collier vessel caught this bird at 

 sea, as it was making its way to the shore, on the 

 Yorkshire coast, after a severe storm of wind in 

 the month of May, 1822. It lived a short time 

 after it was brought to land, and was lent to this 

 work by G. T. Fox, Esq., and is now in the 

 Museum of the Literary and Philosophical Society 

 of Newcastle. It is about the size of the Yellow 

 Bunting. The bill dark reddish; the head and 

 neck, as far as the breast, pale olive green, slightly 

 powdered with pale ash-grey. The chin and throat 

 are pale greenish yellow; a streak of the same 

 colour falls down from the corners of the lower 

 mandibles, before the auriculars. The breast and 

 belly are of a light rusty chesnut; the vent and 



