EMBEEIZINiE. 373 



The Ortolan Bunting. 



Descr. — Whole head, neck, and breast, grey, with a green cast ; 

 a pale yellow streak from the base of lower mandible, and a broad 

 central stripe of the same colour down the chin and throat ; ripper 

 parts rufescent brown, with dark central streaks ; wings and tail 

 dingy brown, pale edged ; the outer tail-feathers with a large patch 

 of white on the inner web ; beneath, from the breast, ferruginous, 

 paling posteriorly. 



Bill reddish ; feet fleshy yellow. Length 5f to 6 inches ; wing 

 3| ; tail 2i. 



The Ortolan of Europe, considered by Horsfield identical with 

 Blyth's species, formerly named by him E. Bucha?icmi, is recorded 

 to have been occasionally found in Western India. It is well 

 known in the south of Europe, where they are caught in great 

 numbers, fattened for the table, and considered a great delicacy. 

 In India the social lark (calanclrella brachydactyla) and the 

 JPyrrhulauda grisea are popularly called Ortolans. 



The next bird has the bill somewhat stouter and larger. 



716. Emberiza Huttoni, Blyth. 



J. A. S., XVIII., 811— Horsf., Cat. 735— E. Buchanani, 

 Blyth, J. A. S., XVI., 780. 



The Grey-necked Bunting. 



Descr. — Nearly allied to E. hortulana, but differing in colour, 

 having the head, neck, throat, and interscapularies, greyish, without 

 marks, but a few traces of striation on the lower part of the 

 back ; orbital feathers whitish ; scapularies, forepart of wing, and 

 margins of the coverts and tertiaries of the same pale rufous buff 

 as the entire lower parts, from the breast inclusive, which is similar 

 to that of the abdominal region, only, of E. hortulana. 



Bill reddish ; feet pale fleshy brown. Length 6 inches ; wing 

 2>\; tail 3; tarsus f. . 



From the N. W. Himalayas; found in winter in flocks near 

 shino-ly and stony hills. Hutton found it at Candahar in summer. 

 It does not appear certain whether this, or the preceding species, is 

 Sykes' E. hortulana. Cat. 102 ; no specimen of which appears to 

 exist in the Museum E. I. C. 11., but it was most probably this 



