318 



INSESSORES. LTNARIA. 



I.INNET. 



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

 the neck is also more varied with spots and streaks. 



Fig. 4 



Female. 



Male bird 

 in winter 

 plumage. 



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, Bxxy. 

 PLATE LV. Fig. 5. 



Linaria montana, Br'iss. 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'Ornitb. v. 1. p. 368. 

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



p. 139. 

 Gelbschnablicbe Fink, Naum. Vog. 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 — LewinS Br. Birds, 2. t. 86. 



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



Twite, Mo7it. 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 



