FINCHES 8 1 



It is so called by Pennant, "Brit. Zool.," 1768; by 

 Gilbert White (Letter viii. to Barrington), by Mon- 

 tagu (" Orn. Diet SuppL," and Letter to White, 21st 

 May 1789), and by Markwick (Observations on 

 Migration, Trans. Linn. Soc, 1789, p. 125). In a 

 "New Gen. Hist. Birds," 2 vols. 12mo, 1745, it is 

 mentioned as " Aherdavine, in some places called the 

 Barley-bird." Rutty (" Nat. Hist. Co. Dublin," 1772, 

 i. pp. 315, 342) includes it as ''Abber de Vine." 



LINNET. Linota cannabina (Linnaeus). PI. 13, figs. 

 17, 18. Length, 5*5 in. ; wing, 3 in. ; tarsus, 0*65 in. 



So called in allusion to its favourite seed, linum, 

 flax, and cannabis, hemp. 



Resident and generally distributed, migrating 

 southward and eastward at the approach of winter, 

 when numbers are taken by bird-catchers. I have 

 seen a pure white one, which was taken near London. 

 Coues, in a monograph of the genus (Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phil., 1861, p. 373; additional remarks, 

 1863, p. 40), adopts ^giothus of Cabanis as the 

 name of the genus (Cabanis, " Museum Heine- 

 anum," 1851, p. 161), type F. linaria, L. ; but 

 Sclater, writing "on the correct generic name of 

 the Linnets" {Ibis, 1892, p. 555), with good 

 reason, on the ground of priority, prefers to retain 

 the earlier name Linota of Bonaparte (1831), adopted 

 in the former edition of this " Handbook." 



