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of the two: he would frequently erect his crest, and both of them 
would snap their beaks at each other by way of menace. He 
had no regular song, but uttered notes resembling those of the 
Greater Redpole and Green Grosbeak, and also the gentle com- 
placent note occasionally uttered by the female Chaftinch.—La- 
tham says the legs are gray, and Bewick describes them as pale- 
brown. The hind part of the legs and the bottoms of the feet 
of a specimen which we examined, were of a bright yellow. In 
a female killed late in April, the remark of Linnzus, alarum 
basi subtus flavissima, was very striking. 
7. F. cannabina (Common Linnet). 
8. F. montium (Twite, French Linnet). 
This is a winter bird of passage. We have found them plenti- 
ful in the month of October on Pewit. Island, and on the main 
land of Essex near it, in flocks of ten and twenty together ; and 
towards evening we noticed a flock of about a hundred : so that 
it seems not improbable that the flocks may collect together to 
pass the night. No other birds were mixed with these flocks, 
which were feeding on the seeds of the Marsh Samphire (Sali- 
cornia herbacea), and Sea Starwort (Aster tripolium). Their little 
twittering note, as they sit or fly, might easily be mistaken for 
that of the Siskin; but their ay, ay, ay, twite, twite, twite, (whence 
certainly their name,) at once distinguishes them. Twites are 
found in the salt-marshes near Yarmouth ; and we have seen a 
flock of them at Shotley Point in Suffolk. A Twite was killed on 
the 23rd of May ; so that a few may perhaps breed in this coun- 
try. Mr. Scales informs us that this species of Finch visits 
Beechamwell very early in the spring, and feeds upon the seeds 
of the Alder as they drop from the cones. 
At half-past five o’clock in the morning of March 20th, 1820, 
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