BRITISH BIRDS. 



257 



THE MOUNTAIN LINNET. 



TWITE. 



(Fn'n-gilla Monti tun, Linn. Gros-bcc dc montagnc, 

 Temm.) 



A pair of these birds, male and female, with 

 their nest and six eggs, were obligingly presented 

 to this work, by the author's late pupil, Mr. John 

 I ,aws, of Heddon Laws, Northumberland. He shot 

 them on Callerton Fell, near their nest, on the 

 1 5th June, 1821; their stomachs were filled with 

 the seed of the dandelion. The male measured, 

 stretched out, five inches in length, and nine in 

 breadth; the female was a little larger. The bill 

 is thick and short, of a pale flesh red; nostrils 

 covered with a hairy kind of feathers ; irides hazel ; 

 the space above and below the eye pale tawny 

 brown; the throat and fore part of the neck the 

 same; the sides and hinder part of the latter 

 whitish spotted with brown. The whole of the 



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