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ortolan bunting
3. A migratory bunting, Emberiza hortulana, which breeds in parts of southern and eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and western central Asia, has mainly brown plumage with a yellow throat and a grey or (in the male) olive-green head, and was formerly widely regarded as a delicacy. Also ortolan bunting.
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a1667 A. Cowley tr. Horace Epode ii, in Wks. (1669) v. 108 Nor Ortalans nor Godwits nor the rest Of costly names that glorify a Feast.
1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 67 As fat as Hortulans in France and Italie.
1717 A. Pope Corr. 13 Sept. (1956) I. 428 I love no meat but Ortolans, and no women but you.
1732 Philos. Trans. 1731–2 (Royal Soc.) 37 175 The Soreè. This bird is in Virginia as much in Request for the Delicacy of its Flesh, as the Ortulan in Europe.
1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. iii. 145 The Ortolan is a small singing bird..common in France, Italy, and other parts of Europe. It is the epicure's prime morçeau.
1843 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds I. 457 The Ortolan Bunting is only a summer visiter to the middle and northern countries of Europe.
1895 Ld. Rosebery in Daily News 3 July 7/4 The choicest morsel that you can put before an epicure, and that is an ortolan inside a quail.
1903 E. P. Oppenheim Yellow Crayon xxviii. 212 ‘This’, she remarked, with a little satisfied sigh as she selected an ortolan, ‘is a very satisfactory place to be carried off to.’
1986 Bird Watching May 32/2 Added to these scintillating Scandinavian treasures were a couple of ortolan buntings, a few red-backed shrikes, golden orioles and an icterine warbler.
1999 Daily Tel. 3 Feb. 13/4 An estimated 150,000 ortolans..are trapped every autumn as they pass through south-west France on their way to North Africa and the Middle East.
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