| The beccafico, however, is not as a rule artificially fattened, and on this account was preferred by some sensitive tastes to the ortolan. |
| There is, however, some consolation for the rarity of the ortolan in England. |
| The ortolan was so prized as a delicacy that it was almost hunted into extinction. |
| Farther, he would give Monsieur an ortolan in a vine leaf, and a dish of stewed sorrel. |
| The ortolan Bunting, Emberiza hortulana, and some others, are fattened for the table in 191 five or six days. |
| The cage of the young bird was near that of an ortolan, a European bird noted as a singer, and a common cage-bird. |
