ORTOLAN. 
ORTOLAN BUNTING. 
Linnaeus. Latham. 
Selby. Jknyns. Gould. 
Montagu. Bewick. 
Latham. 
chloroccphala, 
tunstalli. 
Ember iza —, 
Hortulana —Of, or pertaining to gardens, 
Hortns —A garden. 
This is an abundant species in many parts of the European 
continent, and is found also in plenty on the northern shores 
of Africa, as well as in Asia Minor, Central Asia, and the 
East Indies. In Europe, it occurs plentifully in France, 
Spain, and the other southern countries that border on the 
Mediterranean, occasionally in Holland, and also in Denmark, 
Sweden, and Norway, where it even produces its young; and 
in Lapland. 
A specimen of this bird was taken off the Yorkshire coast, 
in the month of May, 1822, by the master of a merchant 
vessel; Bewick says that about the same time a pair were seen 
in the garden at Cherry-burn, on the banks of the Tyne. 
Another possessed by Marmaduke Tunstal, Esq., had been 
taken some time previously, in St. Mary-la-bonne Fields,. 
London, by a bird-catcher; a third was killed near Manchester, 
in November, 1827; and a fourth was caught near London, 
in company with Yellow Buntings, by another member of the 
above-named fraternity. ‘La mala compagnia e quella che 
mena uomini alia furca;’ ‘Bad company leads to the gallows,’ 
says the Italian proverb, and the Ortolan Bunting is not the 
first that has experienced the truth of it. In the ‘Account 
of the Birds found in Norfolk,’ by John Henry Gurney and 
