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THE LINNET. 



Synonyme8. 



Fringilla cannabina. Of Ornithologists. 



Linot, Of the French. 



Hiinfiing, Lanning, Of the Germans. 



Pardillo, Of the Spaniards. 



Pintarroxo, Of the Portigcese. 



Fanello, Of the Italians. 



Linnet, Brown Linnet, i 



Whin Linnet, Lintie, S- Of the British. 



Greater Red Pole, > 



,HE linnet, from its natural flute-like voice, excels most 

 other song birds in its power of beautifully and 

 purely imitating melodies and airs which are piped 

 to it, and for this quality it is especially esteemed. It will 

 also learn the song of all the birds in the room or cage 

 that it hears. Its natural song consists of many connected 

 strophies, and is the more beautiful the oftener it utters some 

 high-sounding notes, which are called its " crowing," from its 

 resemblance to the crowing of a cock. It sings both summer 

 and winter, excepting the time of moulting. 



DESCRIPTION. 



The length of this bird is more than five inches, of which the 

 tail measures two inches and a half. The beak, six lines long, 

 is dusky-blue in summer, and in winter greyish-white, with the 



