Editing Ortolan bunting (section)

==Taxonomy==
[[File:Emberiza hortulana nhm.jpg|thumb|Ortolan bunting bird mount preparation]]

The ortolan bunting was [[Species description|described]] by the Swedish naturalist [[Carl Linnaeus]] in 1758 in the [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|tenth edition]] of his ''[[Systema Naturae]]'' and retains its original [[binomial nomenclature|binomial]] name of ''Emberiza hortulana''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Linnaeus|first=Carl|author-link=Carl Linnaeus|year=1758|title=Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis|volume=1|edition=10th|page=177| publisher=Holmiae:Laurentii Salvii|language=la|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727084}}</ref> The species is [[monotypic]].<ref name=ioc>{{cite web|editor1-last=Gill|editor1-first=Frank|editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist)|editor2-last=Donsker|editor2-first=David|year=2018|title=Buntings|work=World Bird List Version 9.1|url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/buntings/|publisher=International Ornithologists' Union|access-date=6 June 2019}}</ref> A [[molecular phylogenetic]] study of the buntings published in 2008 found that the ortolan bunting is most closely related to [[Cretzschmar's bunting]] (''Emberiza caesia'').<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Alström|first1=P.|last2=Olsson|first2=U.|last3=Lei|first3=F.|last4=Wang|first4=H.|last5=Gao|first5=W.|last6=Sundberg|first6=P.|year=2008|url=https://www.nrm.se/download/18.61d98c3a11a91af311a80001022/Alstr%C3%B6m%20et%20al%20Emberizini%20MPEV%202008.pdf|title=Phylogeny and classification of the Old World Emberizini (Aves, Passeriformes)|journal=[[Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution]]|volume=47|issue=3|pages=960–973|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2007.12.007|pmid=18411062| bibcode=2008MolPE..47..960A}}</ref>