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LA CABARET. 



Briison 3 — 142. 



THE TWITE. 



PLATE XXXIII. 



X he bill of the male is entirely yellow, in the female 

 dusk; it is short, straight, and sharp-pointed. The eyes 

 are brown. The cheeks are a pale brown, which col- 

 our is continued round the eye. The feathers on the 

 head and upper part of the back are black, with brown 

 edges. Those of the lower part of the back are also 

 brown, but in the male are glossed over, as it were, 

 with a beautiful shining scarlet or crimson colour, but 

 not so in the female. 



In the bird before me, the three first quill feathers 

 of the wing are wholly black, the next five have their 

 outer edges for more than half their length white, and 

 all the second order of quills, as well as the greater 

 coverts, have light-coloured tips; the lesser coverts are 

 the same colour as the back. 



The tail consists of twelve feathers, all of them ob- 

 liquely pointed. The two middle ones shorter than the 

 rest, black, with red-brown edges. The three outmost 

 pn each side have their exterior borders white. 



The throat and upper part of the breast are of a faint 

 dusky red, with dark strokes down the middle of the 

 feathers. The belly and covert feathers under the tail 

 are white. The legs and feet are black. The claws 

 curved and sharp at the point. 



The Twite goes among our birdmen by the name 

 Grey Linnet. 



