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STRASBURG F. 
DeEscRIPTION. 
Bieel2 NO Ci (ET 
The female wants the red fpot on the rump. It is moft pro- 
bable that this and the laft-defcribed are mere varieties of each 
other. Mr. Pennant feems of this opinion, by placing them as 
one fpecies; and I fhould readily join him, did not Willughby 
exprefsly fay, that his Mountain Linnet is fix inches and a half, or 
two inches longer than the prefent {pecies. This, however, may 
be a miftake, as the common Linnet is only five inches and a 
half. As to the prefence, or want, of the red on the head, which 
feems to conftitute another effential difference, the time of the 
year, age or fex of the bird, or other circumftances, may have 
given rife to a double defcription. We have feen one of thefe *, 
in which the forehead, rump, and breaft, were all of them 
red. 
Twites are taken in the flight-feafon near London, along with 
other Linnets. Itis probable that the name has been taken from 
their ¢wittering note, having no mufic init; and indeed the bird- 
catchers will tell at fome diftance whether there be any Twites 
mixed among Linnets, merely from this circumftance. The 
Twite is fuppofed to breed in the more northern parts of our 
ifland. 
La Linotte de Strafbourg, Bri/. orn. iii. p. 146. 34- 
Le Gyntel de Strafburgh, Buf. oi/. iv. p- 73- 
IZE of the common Linnet. The head and upper parts, as 
far as the rump, brown: beneath,, as far as the upper part of 
the belly, and fides, rufous, {potted with brown : the belly and 
vent whitith: quills and tail brown: legs reddifh. 
* In the Leverian Mufeum. 
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