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shades into primrose yellow on the belly, gra- 
dually paler on the vent and under tail coverts, 
and running into yellowish brown on the flanks, 
where it is also dashed with umber brown along 
the shafts of the feathers. In the female all the 
colours are somewhat similar, but the markings 
are indistinct and less clear. 
The Ortolan Bunting, Emberiza hortu- 
lana. — Emberiza hortulana, Linn. — E. Tun- 
stalli, Lath. — E. chlorocephala, Mont . — Ortolan, 
or Ortolan Bunting , of British authors. — The 
Ortolan Bunting, famed among the Epicures of 
France, is of a very rare occurrence in Britain, 
and can only be viewed as a mere straggler. Its 
first notice as a native of our Fauna appears 
under another name, that of E. chlorocephala, 
or Green-Headed Bunting, and is thus figured by 
Mr Brown in his Illustrations of Zoology. From 
thence, the specimen which was used by Mr 
Brown, has been traced by the perseverance of 
Mr Fox to the collection of Mr Tunstal, and 
thence to that of the Newcastle Museum, where 
it now remains, and has been ascertained to be 
identical with the Ortolan of Europe ; this speci- 
men was taken by a bird-catcher near London. 
The specimen which served for Mr Bewick’s 
figure was caught at sea, on the Yorkshire coast; 
another is mentioned as taken near Manchester, 
and a fourth in 1837, near London. These, up 
to last year, seem all the instances of its capture 
