ortolan

• Also brought to mind is the French practice of eating the ortolan, which is an endangered French song bird. —  Destructoid
• The reed-bird--in the West Indies called "ortolan"--is also found in the same markets with the canvas-back. —  The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
• In the fall of the year the reed-bird, which is quite as good as the ortolan of Italy, and very much like it (I prefer the reed-bird), came in large flocks to the marshes and shores of the Delaware and Schuylkill. —  Memoirs
• The ortolan (_E. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• Pamphagonia is of a triangular figure, like that of ancient Egypt, or the Greek letter delta, Δ. It is mountainous, inclosed with very high hills; its soil is of the richest, so that birds which come thither to feed, if they tarry but three months, grow so very fat and weighty, that they cannot fly back again over the mountains, but suffer themselves to be taken up in the hand, and are as delicious as the ortolan or the beccaficos of the Italians. —  Ideal Commonwealths

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