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INSESSORES. LINARIA. 



LINNET. 



Female. 



Male bird 

 in winter 

 plumage. 



older birds. The grey upon the crown of the head and 

 the neck is also more varied with spots and streaks. 



Fig. 4. The female. Natural size. 



Inferior in size to the male bird. Head and upper parts 

 of the body umber-brown ; the margins of the feathers 

 passing into yellowish-brown. Wing- coverts chestnut- 

 brown. Throat and sides of the neck yellowish-white, 

 streaked and varied with yellowish-brown. Breast and 

 flanks pale reddish brown, streaked with umber-brown. 

 Middle of the belly yellowish- white. 



The winter-plumage of the male (after the first year) is 

 nearly as follows : Crown of the head varied with large 

 black spots, which occupy the centre of the feathers. 

 Back and scapulars chestnut-brown, but deeply mar- 

 gined with pale yellowish-brown. Breast reddish-brown, 

 with the tips of the feathers reddish-white. Flanks with 

 large oblong-brown streaks. 



MOUNTAIN LINNET OR TWITE. 



LINARIA MONTANA, Hay. 

 PLATE LV. FIG. 5. 



Linaria montana, Briss. 3. p. 145. 38 Rail Syn. p. 91. A. 4 Will p. 191. 

 Fringilla montium, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 917. sp. 68 Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 1. 



p. 459. sp. 84. 



Gros-bec a gorge rouge, ou de Montaign, Temm. Man. d'Ornitli. v. 1. p. 368. 

 Arktische Fink, Bechst. Tasschenb. p. 125. t. 9. Id. Naturg. Leut. v. 2. 



p. 139. 



Gelbschnabliche Fink, Naum. Vgg. t. 20. f. 39 Frisch. t. 10. f. 1. female. 

 Mountain Linnet, Br. Zool. No. 133. t. 53 Will. (Ang.) p. 261 Arct. 



Zool. 2. p. 380. C Lath. Syn. 3. p. 307. 76 Lenin's Br. Birds, 2. t. 86. 



Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 13. Bewick's Supp. to Br. Birds, t. p. 24. 

 Twite, Mont. Ornith. Diet. v. 2 Low's Faun. Oread, p. 64 Shaw's Zool. 



v. 9. p. 521. 



THIS, like the preceding species, is subject, during a cer- 

 tain period of the year, to a change in the colour of its fea- 

 thers on particular parts of the body, rendering its summer 



