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LINOTA CANNABINA 
Loca names in surrounding counties: ‘‘ Red Linnet ” 
(male) (Essex). 
Stratus 1n British AviraunA: A common and widely 
distributed resident, especially in winter, when its num- 
bers are swelled by migrants from Continental areas. 
RapiaL DistRiBUTION WITHIN FIFTEEN MILES OF ST. 
Pauu’s: Of the small Finches the Linnet is by far the 
commonest and best known throughout the Metropolitan 
area. It breeds in many parts of it, although some- 
what locally, doubtless because suitable ground is want- 
ing in certain districts. I have records of it nesting on 
Wimbledon and Tooting Commons, and various gorse- 
covered spots in Surrey and Kent well within the eight- 
mile radius. It is also tolerably common at Epping, and 
may be found breeding at Hampstead, and in the Wembley, 
Osterley, and Hounslow districts. It also nests at Harrow 
and Stanmore, and in many other suitable spots in the 
more rural suburbs. ‘The places mentioned serve chiefly 
as guides ; haunts of the Linnet may be found in many of 
the intervening localities. In winter the bird is not so 
local, and flocks may be met with much nearer the central 
districts. I have often seen it on waste lands and brick- 
fields adjoining Wormwood Scrubbs ; it is also a visitor 
to some of the more urban parks, and to many of 
the private grounds and gardens with which suburban 
London abounds. On April 26, 1905, I watched a 
female Linnet for some time hopping about the grass 
and the beds of tulips in the ornamental gardens of the 
Victoria Memorial opposite to Buckingham Palace, and 
the bird has been recorded from Kensington Gardens 
During the summer the favourite haunts of the Linnet 
are gorse-coverts, and here it nests in scattered pairs ; 
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