THE LINNET 



Specimens caught in the autumn soon 

 adapt themselves to confinement, but 

 those taken in the spring frequently 

 mope and die. One has been known to 

 live as many as fourteen years in a cage, 

 but I have never yet heard of a specimen 

 in confinement donning the crimson 

 colour on its head or breast. 



The species has derived its name in 

 several European countries from its fond- 

 ness for linseed. 



