Female. 
274 PASSERES. FRINGILEA. Brown 
white. Sides inclining to buff-orange, spotted with 
black. Tail black, edged with grey, and the exterior 
web of the outer feather white. Base of the bill inclin- 
ing to lemon-yellow; the tip black. In summer the 
head,. neck and back are of a deep black, without any 
of the yellowish-brown that distinguishes these parts in 
winter ; and the bill- becomes of a dark bluish-grey. 
Fig. 9. The female. Natural size. 
Crown of the head hair-brown. Cheeks and nape of the 
neck ash-erey. Above the eye is a streak of brewnish- 
black. Throat and breast reddish-orange. Back black- 
ish-brown, margined with yellowish-brown. Wings 
brownish-black. 
The young of the year resemble the female, except that 
the throat.is usually white. 
« Common or Brown Linnet.—Fringilla cannabina, 
Syn. of 
young 
Male after 
Ist autum- 
nal moult. 
Syn. of 
adult 
Male in 
summer 
plumage. 
Linn. - 
PLATE 55. Figs. 3, 4. 
Fringilla cannabina, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 322. sp. 28. 
Gros-Bec Linotte, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 364. 
Greater Redpole, or Brown Linnet, Mont. Ornith. Dict. 
The Linnet, Low’s Faun. Orcad. p. 63. 
Greater Redpole Finch, Shaw’s Zool..v. 9.-p. 516. 
Fringilla Linota, Gmei. Syst. I. p. 916.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. I. p. 457. 
sp. 81. ; 
eee Raii, Syn. p. 80. A. 1.—Wiil. p. 190.—Id. (Ang.) 258.—Briss. 3. 
p. 131: 29. 
La Linotte ordinaire, Buff: Ois. v. 4. p. 58. t. L—Zd. PL Enl. 151. f. 1. 
Common Linnet, Br. Zool. No. 130.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 2. t. 83.—Lath- 
Syn. 3. p. 402. 73.—Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 12.— Wale. Syn. ti 221. 
Grey Linnet, Bewick’s Br. Birds, |. p. 171. 
.Fringilla cannabina, Gmel. Syst: 1. p.'916. sp. 28.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. L. 
p- 458. sp. 82. 
Linaria rubra major, Briss. 3. p. 135. 30.—Raii, Syn. p. 91.A. 2.— Wilk 
p. 191. t. 46. rey 
Le Grand Linotte des Vignes, Buff: Ois. v. 4. p. 58.—Id. PL En, 485 
f, 2. old male under the title of Petite Linotte des Vignes. ; 
