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and usually shows no red on rump or breast; patch on chin 
browner than in male; flanks and chest washed with light brown, 
and streaked with darker brown. 
Adult (Winter): Feathers above more broadly edged 
with rufous-brown ; throat patch smaller than in summer ; bill 
yellow, black tipped. 
Young in first plumage: Head mottled with dark brown 
and greyish; greater and middle wing-coverts broad, tipped 
with buff; rump mottled with brownish-white and dark brown; 
chin, breast and abdomen whitish; sides of head, chest and 
flanks washed with brown and mottled with darker brown ; 
upper mandible shaded brown ; legs paler than in adults. 
Distribution : Northern Central Europe, breeding com- 
monly in parts of Great Britain ; not found north of the Baltic 
and occurring in Southern Europe on migration. 
Habitat: Similar to that of Z. Zézaria. 
LINNET. “4 
Linota cannabina (Lznz). 
Adult Male (Summer): Cvrowz ashen-grey, streaked with 
dark brown, forepart washed with cherry-red ; ear-coverts ashy- 
srey ; feathers at base of bill and round eyes ochreous ; back 
feathers chestnut, with darker centres; primaries and _ tail 
blackish, with white margins broader on the latter; throat 
marked with dusky; s¢des of breast and chest vosy; flanks fawn- 
brown ; bill, legs and feet brown ; irides brown. Length 5°5 
inches ; culmen 0°35 ; wing 3°25; tail 2°3; tarsus 0°65. 
Adult Female (Summer): Very similar to male, but 
browner above and lacks the red both on crown and breast, the 
latter and flanks striped with dark brown. 
Adult Male (Winter): Similar but duller, and usually 
the red is obscured by pale margins to feathers which wear off 
again in spring. 
Young: Very like adult females, but rather more striped 
with brown both above and beneath, and young males show a 
trace of red on the breast. 
Distribution: Except in extreme north, resident over 
nearly the whole of Western Palearctic Region. 
Habitat: Neighbourhood of plantations or commons. In 
winter on stubble-fields in flocks. 
