YELLOW BUNTING, AND ORTOLAN: ^ 367 



C. Yellow B. Br. Zool. i. N» 1 19. 



Groning. Goldfpink, Faun. Suec. N" 230, 



Le Bruant de France, De Buffon, iv. 340.— P/. £«/. 30. z.-^-Latham, ii. 170.— 

 Lev. Mus. 



^ With the crown of a fine light yellow : chin, throat, and 

 belly, yellow : breaft marked with orange red : rump ruft- 

 colored : tail brown ; two outmoft feathers marked, near the end, 

 obliquely with white. 



Found as high as Scndmor *, in the RuJJtan empire. In RuJfiUy Placb, 



and the weft of Sibiria ; but none in the wilds of the eaft. 



D. Ortolan, Wil. Orn. 270- — Rali Syn. A'v. 94. 



Emberiza Hortulana, Lin. Syft. 309. — Faun. Suec. N° 229. 



L'Ortolan, De Buffon, iv. 305. — PI. Enl. 247. i. — Latham, ii. 166. — Lev. Mus. 



TJ With a cinereous crown : yellow throat : back pale brown, 

 fpotted with black : rump dafhed with yellow : belly ruft- 

 colored: tail dufky; inner ends of the outmoft feathers marked 

 with a great fpot of white. 



Thefe are a fouthern fpecies; but fometimes wander into Swedetty Placb. 



in March. Breed, and quit the country in autumn f. Are com- 

 mon in RuJJia and Sibiria, but not further than the Oby. Arrive in 

 France with the Swallows %. In Italy, about Padua, in May, and 

 retire in September §. I cannot trace their winter refidence. They 

 come rather lean. Make an artlefs neft : lay four or five greyifh 

 eggs : and ufually lay twice in the fummer. Thefe birds fing pret- 

 tily, and in the night || : but, by epicures, are valued more as a 

 delicious morfel, than for their fong. They are taken and placed in 

 a chamber lightened by lanthorns ; fo that, not knowing the vicifli- 

 tudes of day and night, they are not agitated by the change. Are 



* Strom. 230. + Amixn, Acad. iv. 595. J De B-uffon, iv. 309^ 



S M. Scopoli's Lift of Italian birds, MS. with which he favored me* ||, Kram*- 



Aufir. 371. 



, fed 



