ORTOLAN BUNTING. 



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glacialis are distinct from the Snow Bunting, as 

 they have been taken at various places at the same 

 seasons of the year, very nearly corresponding with 

 the above description, and never running into each 

 other sufficiently to mistake them. 



ORTOLAN BUNTING. 

 (Emberiza Hortulana.) 



E. remigibus nigris, pennis tribus margine albidis, rcctricibris 

 nigris, lateralibus duabus extrorsum albis. 



Bunting with the quills black, the three outer feathers with 

 whitish margins ; tail-feathers black, the two lateral ones ex- 

 ternally white. 



Emberiza Hortulana. Lin. Sijst. Nat. 1. 30y. 4. — Lin. Faun, 

 Suec. 229*. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 869. — Lath. 2nd, Orn. I. 

 399. 5. 



Hortulanus. Briss. 3. 269. 4. 



L'Ortolan. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 305. t. U.—Buff. PL Enl. 

 247. f. 1. 



Ortolan Bunting. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 367. n.—Albin. 3. 50.— 

 Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 166. 5. — Lath. Syn. Sup. 157. 



This bird, which is rather less than the Yellow- 

 hammer, is very variable : it is in length six inches 

 and a quarter : beak yellowish : head and neck ci- 

 nereous olive, yellowish round the eyes : throat 

 yellowish, with a cinereous border on each side 

 beneath the jaw : under parts pale rufous, palest 

 towards the vent : back and scapulars brownish 

 chesnut, with the middle of the feathers blackish ; 

 towards the rump the chesnut predominates : wing- 



