262 BRITISH AND EUROPEAN BIRDS. 



There dwell pleasures worth possessing, 



In yon cot beside the hill. 

 Where content, pure love caressing. 



Listens to the crystal rill. (*^) 



(*^) The Fringilla Linota, Linnet, Common-Linnet, or 

 Bromi- Linnet, sometime* called also, I believe, Grey-Linnet, is 

 chesniit-brown, beneath whitish ; bottom of the breast blood-red 

 in the male, in the female streaked with brown. Size of the 

 Greater- Redpole. Eggs five, whitish, with chesnut spots ; sings 

 delightfully. It appears that, from occasional variations in its 

 colours, this bird is often confounded with the Greater-Redpole ; 

 indeed, Montagu asserts, that both this and the Redpole are. 

 one and the same species. See the description of the Redpole 

 in note 44. 



For a description of the Green-Linnet, Loxia Chloris, 

 see page 1 75. 



