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PASSE RES. 



FlUKGI],LTn;F. 



FRINGILLIDyE. 



LiNOTA FLAViROSTRis (Liiinaeus *). 

 THE TWITE. 



L'lnota montiumi. 



The Twite is at once distinguished from the common 

 Linnet by the greater length of its tail, which gives it a 

 more elongated and slender appearance, and by having a red- 

 dish-tawny throat. Moreover it assumes no crimson colouring, 

 either on the head or breast, at any season of the year, though 

 the rump of the male is always more or less of that tint, 

 forming the chief external characteristic of the difference 

 of the sexes. This bird was first made known to Willughby 

 by Jessop, of Broom Hall, who found it in the Peak of Derby- 

 shire. Rudbeck, the Swedish naturalist, included its portrait 

 in his collection of coloured drawings and, on the strength of 

 this figure, it was named Fringilla fiavlvostris by Linnieus, 

 who also described it in his ' Fauna Svecica,' but so in- 

 adequately that, but for Prof. Nilsson's subsequent deter- 

 mination of the subject of the picture (K. Vet. -Acad. Handl). 



* Fringilla flavirostris, Linn.eus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 322 (176(5). 

 t FriiifjiUa montium, J. F. Ginelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 917 (1788). 



