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LINARIA CHLORIS. THE GREEN LINNET, OR 

 GREENFINCH. 



GREEN LINNET. GREENFINCH. GREEN GROSBEAK. GREEN LINTIE. 



Fig. 62. 



Loxia Chloris. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 304. 



Loxia Chloris. Lath. Ind. Orn. L 382. 



Greenfinch. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Gros-bec verdier. Fringilla Chloi-is. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 346. 



Green Grosbeak. Coccothraustes Chloris. Selb. Illustr. I. 326. 



Fringilla Chloris. Green Grosbeak. Jen. Brit. Yert. An. 136. 



Male with the upper parts and breast yellowish green^ the head 

 tinged with grey^ the edge of the icing^ the outer webs of the alula, 

 and part of the outer zcebs of the primary quills^ icith the basal 

 part of the tail feathers yellow. Female with the upper parts 

 greenish-broicn^ the breast greyish-broicn^ the wings and tail 

 marked icith yellow as in the male, but to a less extent. Young 

 similar to the female. 



INI ALE. — The Green Linnet, which, considered in a systematic 

 point of view, is as much related to the Sparrows and Gros- 

 beaks as to the Linnets, is ranked with the latter merely be- 

 cause its bill is not bulged enough to assimilate to that of the 

 first, nor nearly so large as that of the second. It is a bird of 

 about the size of the House Sparrow, somewhat smarter and 



