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LINNET. 



BROWN LINNET. COMMON LINNET. 



GREATER REDPOLE. RED-BREASTED LINNET. GREY LINNET. 

 ROSE LINNET. WHIN LINNET. 



Linaria cannabina, MACGULLIVRAY. 



Fringilla cannabina, LINN.HUS. LATHAM. 



" Hnota, LATHAM. 



Linota cannabina, PRINCE OF MUSIGNANO. YARRELL. 



Linaria Linum Flax. Cannabina Belonging to canes or reeds. 



CannaA cane or reed. 



THIS species is an inhabitant of Europe, being found in 

 Denmark, Russia, Norway, and Sweden; France, Spain, Italy, 

 Holland, Germany, Crete, Corfu, and other islands of the 

 Mediterranean, and the Levant; as also in Asia, throughout 

 Asia Minor, Persia, and in Japan, according to Temminck. 



In this country it is generally distributed throughout the 

 year in England, Scotland, Ireland, Orkney, and Zetland. 



The Linnet is easily reared from the nest. 



Towards the end of autumn individuals collect together in 

 flocks, and these again as winter advances, further unite, often 

 to their own destruction; a too dense crowding together 

 proving fatal to them as well as to their superiors in the 

 scale of creation. I remember picking up nine which I once 

 shot in Berkshire; and I saw in the newspaper a few years 

 since, that, 'si rite recorder,' upwards of a hundred and forty 

 were killed at one fell discharge. Sometimes they join with 

 other birds of the Finch tribe, but generally keep to them- 

 selves. In spring, the flocks break up, and leave, for the 

 most part, the cultivated districts of the country, to which 

 they had betaken themselves, for the more hilly and moun- 

 tainous regions of the north; rejoicing in the wild heather, 



