TWITE 



MOUNTAIN LINNET. 



PLATE XC. FIGURE II. 



Fringilla fiavirostris, ..... LINNAEUS. 

 Linaria montana, ...... SELBY. 



^HE nest of the Twite is generally built in heather or 

 I on the ground in grass, growing corn, or by the side 

 of a furrow, sometimes in low bushes. It is formed of small 

 roots, twigs, and stalks of shrubs, heather, moss, and dry 

 grass, and is lined with a small quantity of hair or wool, 

 and a few feathers. A pair built and reared their young 

 in the aviary of Mr. Thomas Walker, of Rosebank, near 

 Tunbridge Wells. 



The eggs, four, five, or occasionally six in number, 

 are of a pale greenish or bluish white, spotted with red- 

 dish brown, or light brown and purple-red towards the 

 larger end, with sometimes a few blackish dots, and are 

 scarcely to be distinguished from those of the common 

 Linnet. 



