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coast, where they continue to reside till returning spring 

 again urges them to pair. 



The Linnet, generally distributed over England, is also 

 common in Ireland, as I learn from Mr. Thompson ; and 

 Sir William Jardine sends me word that it is common 

 during summer in the whin covers, and occurs in large 

 flocks during winter on the stubbles and fallows : it is 

 found also in the south and east of Scotland. Mr. Selby 

 observed it in summer in Sutherlandshire ; and the Rev. 

 Mr. Low says it is abundant in Orkney and Shetland. 

 The Linnet is an inhabitant of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, 

 and the southern provinces of Russia, where it remains all 

 the year. It is found from thence over the whole of the 

 European continent to the southward ; it is very common 

 in France, Provence, Spain, and Italy; it is found in 

 Corfu, Sicily, Malta, Crete, the Levant, and at Smyrna ; 

 the Zoological Society have received specimens sent by 

 Keith Abbot, Esq., from Erzeroum, about a hundred 

 miles south-east of Trebizond, on the shores of the Black 

 Sea; and M. Temminck includes it in his Catalogue of 

 the Birds of Japan. 



The male of the Common Linnet in summer has the 

 beak of a bluish lead colour ; the irides hazel ; the feathers 

 of the fore part and top of the head greyish brown at the 

 base, but vermillion red at the tip ; round the eye, the ear- 

 coverts, and back of the neck, greyish brown ; the whole 

 of the back, wings, and upper tail-coverts, uniform rich 

 chestnut brown; quill -feathers nearly black, with very 

 narrow outer margins of white ; tail-feathers black, with 

 narrow outer edges, and broader inner edges of white ; 

 tail rather forked ; chin and throat a mixture of brown 

 and grey ; breast vermillion red, with a few pale brown 

 feathers intermixed; belly and under tail-coverts pale 

 wood-brown ; the flanks darker yellowish brown ; the 



