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LINARIA CANNABINA. THE BROWN LINNET. 



GREY LINNET. BROWN LINNET. ROSE LINNET. WHIN LINNET. 

 GREATER REDPOLL. LINTIE. 



Fig. 63. 



Fringilla cannabina. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 322. 



Fringilla cannabina. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 458. Adult. 



Fringilla Linota. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 457. Young. 



Greater Redpoll, or Brown Linnet. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Grosbec Linote. Fringilla cannabina. Temm. Man. d'Orn. L 364. 



Common or Brown Linnet. Linaria cannabina. Selb. lUustr. L 315. 



Fringilla cannabina. Common Linnet. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 139. 



Male in winter, with the hill dusky above, the throat yellowish- 

 grey, streaked with brown, bach and wing-coxerts reddish-brown, 

 streaJced with darker ; forehead and breast with the feathers 

 dark red in their covered parts. Female with the upper parts 

 streaked with dusky brown and greyish-yellow, the lower light 

 yellowish-grey, the throat, breast, and sides streaked with yellowish- 

 brown. 



Male in summer, with the bill greyish-black above, the throat 

 whitish, streaked with brown, the back and icing-coverts reddish- 

 brown, icithout streaks ; forehead and breast crimson or rose red, 

 the grey tips of the feathers being worn off. 



Young similar to the female ; streaked above with umber- 

 brown, and greyish-yellow, the loicer parts light-yelloxcish, more 

 largely streaked with brown. 



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