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ORTOLAN. 
ORTOLAN BUNTING. 
PLATE LXXIX.—FIG. II. 
Emberiza hortulana, ; P Linnezvs. LatHam. 
e “ : é . Sensy. JENyNS. GOULD. 
Eimberiza chlorocephala, . - Montacu. Bewicx. 
Emberiza Tunstalli, , . Lataam. 
Tue Ortolan Bunting begins to build early in May. 
The nest is placed in corn-fields, and adapted to some 
hollow in the ground, or the latter possibly to it; Selby 
adds thickets and low hedges as places of its nidification 
also. It is formed of dry grass and small roots, thickly 
lined with finer portions of the latter; m some the inside 
is finished with a few hairs. 
The eggs are four or five, sometimes, though rarcly, 
six in number: they vary much in markings. 
Professor Thieneman figures four, one of a pale dull 
bluish grey, with a few dark brown marks; a second 
with a tinge of red, and the marks principally agglo- 
merated at the larger end; a third of a yellowish cast, 
with dark marks and streaks, chiefly at the thicker 
end; and a fourth of a dull bluish hue, marbled all 
over with different shades of brown. 
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