BUNTING. 295 



sometimes been seen in large flocks ; both sexes are fully described 

 in the Ornithological Dictionary, to which we refer for explanation. 

 M. Temminck, however, seems assured that they form but one species. 



4— ORTOLAN BUNTING. 



Emberiza Hortulana, Ind. Orn. i. 399. Lin. i. 309. Gm. Lin. i. 869. Faun. suec. 



No, 229. Frisch, t. 5. f. 3. 4. Muller, No. 253. Brun. p. 68. Sepp, Vog. t. p. 



145. Borowsk.'m. 14S. Naturf. xiii. 197. Id. xviii. 91. Tern. Man. d' Orn. 



1S3. Id.Ed.il p. 312. 

 Hortulanus, Bris. iii. 269. Id. Svo. i. 3S5, Klein, p. 91. 2. Raii, p. 94. Will. 197. 



t. 40. Faun. Helvet. Shaiv's Zool. ix. 349. 

 L'Ortolan, Buf. iv. 305. pi. 14. PI. enl. 247. 1. Hist. Prov. i. 494. 

 Ortolano, Olin. Uc. t. p. 22. Zinnan. Uov. 41. t. 6. f. 25. 

 Ortolan Bunting, Gen. Syn. iii. 166. Id. Sup. 157. Arct. Zool. ii. 367. D. Alb. iii. 



pi. 50. Will. Engl. 270. pi. 40. 



THIS is not unlike the hen of the Yellow Bunting, but smaller; 

 length six inches. Bill and legs yellowish ; head and neck cinereous 

 olive ; round the eye yellowish ; throat the same, bordered on each 

 side the jaw with a cinereous line; the back and scapulars brownish 

 chestnut, mixed with black in the middle of the feathers, but 

 inclining most to chestnut towards the rump ; beneath very pale 

 rufous, lighter towards the vent; wings deep brown, the feathers 

 darker in the middle ; some of them with grey edges ; those of the 

 tail deep brown, edged with rufous, but the outer one with white, 

 and the inner part of the next tipped with white. 



The female has the head and neck inclining to ash-colour, with 

 small blackish lines on the shafts of the feathers; otherwise like the 

 male. — These birds are found in several parts of Europe, but not in 

 England ; common in France and Italy, some parts of Germany, and 

 Sweden, migrating from one place to another, and in their passage 

 are caught in numbers, to fatten for the table : this is effected by put- 

 ting them in a dark room, and setting before them plenty of oats and 

 millet, with which they soon grow so fat, as to be endangered from 



