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and winter, and associate then with flocks of chaffinches, 
greenfinches, bramblings, and wander about over large 
tracts of land; when disturbed the flocks do not take 
cover like greenfinches. Flight: Rapid and straight. 
Have a habit of suddenly alighting on a bush or tree-top. 
Notes: Varied, described on p. 88. The call note has 
been spelt, “chuck-a-chuck, a.’ Notes often uttered on 
the wing. The male sings to the sitting female. Plum- 
age: Seeabove. The tints are very varied. The birds 
are met with brown, cream, to cinnamon and sometimes 
even pied. One yellow variety is known as the ‘lemon 
linnet,’ and another as the ‘brown linnet.’ Many 
migrate in October returning in March, but large num- 
bers remain all the year. Nest: In March to April. 
Open, cup-shaped. Sztwated : Very often low in furze, 
but also in dense may and other bushes, and then difficult 
to get at. Made of: Light twigs, stalks and grass, moss 
and wool, lined with horsehair and down. Second 
Nests : Two or three broods each year. Eggs: Chalk- 
white tinged blue, spotted with small reddish-brown 
and purplish spots, shades variable. Sometimes no 
spots. Four or five or six. 
7. MAGPIE 
(Pages 97-102) 
Pica rustica (also caudata from its long tail; Lat. 
cauda, a tail). Also corvus pica, Lat., corvus a crow. 
