30 FRINGILLID^. 



Emberiza cioides Brandt; Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. . 1899, 

 p. 215. 



Cioides=]Ss.e "da." Castaneiceps =oheatnut-headed, from castanea and 

 capiit. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Bare Visitor. Has 

 occurred in Yorkshire, Nov. 1886. 



General Distribution. — This bird breeds in east Siberia, 

 Manchuria, and Korea, and in winter is found in China. 

 The typical form, E. cioides, inhabits western Siberia and 

 Turkestan, and is represented in Japan by E. c. ciopsis. 



Emberiza hortulana. Ortolan Bunting. 



Emberiza hortulana Linmeus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 177 : 



Sweden. 



Emberiza hoi-tulana Linn.; B. O. U.Lisf, 1st ed. 1883, p. 61; 

 Slmrpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. 1888, p. 530; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 213. 



Hortulana = oi a small garden, Iwrtulus. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Bird of Passage of 

 regular occurrence in spring and autumn in some numbers 

 at Fair Isle, Shetlands^ probably overlooked elsewhere and 

 generally regarded as a Rare "Visitor. Occurred at St. Kilda 

 in the autumns of 1910 and 1911. Once seen in Ireland. 



General Distribution. — The Ortolan breeds in Europe with 

 the exception of the extreme north ; also in Morocco, and in 

 Asia from Asia Minor to Afghanistan and western Mongolia. 

 It occurs on migration in north Africa and in winter extends 

 to Abyssinia, and has occurred rarely in Gilgit, Kashmir. 



Emberiza aureola. Yellow-Breasted Bunting. 



Emberiza aureola Pallas, Eeise Russ. Reichs, ii. 1773, 

 p. 711 : Irtysh river, Siberia. 



Enjberiza aureola Pallas; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. 1888, 

 p. 509 ; Saunders, Bull. B. O. O. xvi. 1905, p. 10. 

 ^«reola=gold-coloured. 



