Ortolan Bunting

SCI Name:  Emberiza hortulana
Protonym:  Emberiza hortulana Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.177
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Emberizidae / Emberiza
Taxonomy Code:  ortbun1
Type Locality:  Europe ; Sweden accepted as restricted type locality, vide Hartert, 1904, Vogel pal. Fauna, p. 165.
Author:  Linnaeus
Publish Year:  1758
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

EMBERIZA
(Emberizidae; Ϯ Yellowhammer E. citrinella) Old Swiss German name Embritz for a bunting  < Old German Ammer  bunting. "97. EMBERIZA.  Rostrum conicum.  Mandibulæ basi deorsum a se invicem discedentes: inferiore lateribus inflexo-coarctata; superiore angustiore." (Linnaeus 1758); "Emberiza Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 177. Type, by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1840, List Genera Birds, ed. 1, p. 47), Emberiza citrinella Linnaeus." (Paynter in Peters, 1970, XIII, p. 5). Linnaeus's Emberiza comprised fourteen species (E. nivalis, E. Calandra, E. Hortulana, E. Citrinella, E. Orix, E. Quelea, E. militaris, E. atrata, E. familiaris, E. flaveola, E. psittacea, E. paradisæa, E. Ciris, E. Alario).  
Var. Emberyza, Emberitza, Embritza, Embriza, Emberisa, Emeberiza.   
Synon. Buscarla, Chrysophrys, Cia, Cirlus, Citrinella, Cosmospina, Cristemberiza, Crithophaga, Cynchramus, Fringillaria, Fringilloides, Glycyspina, Granativora, Hortulana, Hortulanus, Hylaespiza, Hypocentor, Latoucheornis, Melophus, Miliaria, Ocyris, Onychospina, Orospina, Pityornis, Polymitra, Pyrrhulorhyncha, Schaenicola, Schoeniclus, Spina, Spodiospina, Tisa.

hortulana
● "48. Chamaepelia hortulana, Herz. v. Württemb.  Von den Creolen Haiti's Ortolan genannt; grösser als passerina" (Hartlaub 1852) (syn. Columbina passerina insularis).
● Italian name Hortulane for the Ortolan Bunting < L. hortulanus belonging to a garden < hortus garden; ex “Hortulanus” of Gessner 1555, Jonston 1653, and Willughby 1676, “Hortulane” of Ray 1713, “Miliaria pinguescens” of Frisch 1733, “Hortulon” or “Hortulane” of Albin 1738, and “Emberiza remigibus nigris: primis tribus margine albidis, rectricibus nigris: lateralibus duabus extrorsum nigris”of Linnaeus 1746 (Emberiza).

Hortulana
(Emberizidae; syn. Emberiza † Ortolan Bunting E. hortulana) Specific name Emberiza hortulana Linnaeus, 1758; "ORTOLAN. Hortulana. OIS.  Ce nom, donné à plusieurs espèces du genre Bruant, sert surtout à désigner un Oiseau de ce genre, l'Ortolan proprement dit (Emberiza hortulana), que la délicatesse de sa chair a depuis fort longtemps rendu célèbre" (Gerbe 1847); "Hortulana Gerbe, 1847, Dict. Univ. Hist. Nat., IX, p. 224. Type, by tautonymy, Emberiza hortulana Linnaeus, 1758." (JAJ 2021).