20 LINNET. 



LINNET. 



RROWN LINNET. COMMON LINNET. GREATER REDPOLK. 



GREY LINNET. 

 ROSE LINNET. RED-BREASTED LINNET. WHIN LINNET. 



PLATE LXXXVIII. 



Linaria cannabina, MACGILLIVRAY. 



['ringilla cannabina, LINNAEUS. LATHAM. 



Fringilla Linota, LATHAM. 



Linota cannabina, PRINCE OF MUSIGNANO. YARRELL 



rTIHE nest, of rather large size, is commonly placed 

 -- in heath, grass, furze, or gorse, and is neatly 

 constructed inside, but the outside rather roughly, being 

 formed of small twigs, roots, straws, fibres, and stalks 

 of grass, thistle-down, or willow catkins, intermixed 

 with moss and wool, and lined with hair and some- 

 times a few feathers. It is occasionally placed in a 

 gorse, thorn, or other bush or tree, and has been known 

 at a height of ten or twelve feet, but is usually about 

 four, from the ground; also in hedges; one on the 

 top of a gate-post; often in trees trained against a wall, 

 particularly the pear, as affording the most concealment; 

 one high up in a whitethorn : a nest with six eggs was 

 found at Bedworth, Warwickshire, the end of the first 

 week in January, 1884. A pair of Linnets, have built 



