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- BUN TING. 



Emberiza Hortula^a. 

 PLATE C. Fig. 7. 



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



1. 399. sp. 3. 

 Hortulanus, Briss. 3. 209. 4 — Rail Syn. 94. 6 — Will. 197. t. 40. 

 Emberiza Tunstalli, Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. 418. sp. C9. 

 Emberiza chlorocephala, Gmel. Syn. 1. 887. 

 I/Ortolan, Buff. Ois. 1. 305. t. 14 — Id. PI. Enl. 247. f. 1. male. 

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

 Garten Ammer, ^^cAs<. Naturg. Deut. 3. 283 Meyer ^ Tasschenb. Deut. I. 



183. 

 Ortolan-Bunting, Arct. Zool. 2. 367- D — Alhin, 3. t. 30 — Lath. Syn. 3. 



Kjti. .5 Id. sup. 157 



Green-headed Bunting, Lath. Syn. 3. 211. Gl Leioin's Br. Birds, 2. t. 7C. 



—Bewick'^ Br. Bii'ds, Ed. 182G. 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 j^g^j^ entitled to rank, as an occasional visitant : if we are to 

 Visitant. 



consider Emberiza Twistalli of Latham, {Emh. chloroce- 

 phala of Gmelix), and the Green-headed Bunting 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. Huriu- 

 ^ina^ by Tk.mminck and other continental authors. That 



