LINNET FINCH. Class II. 



7. Linnet. Frlngiila Linota. Fr. fiasco- 

 castanc*a, subtus albida, fa- 

 scia alarum ldngitudiiiali al- 

 ba, rectficibus nigris, mar- 

 ginibus undique albis. Lath. 

 Jnd. ofn. 457. id. Syn. iii. 

 302. 



Fringilla Linota. Gm. Lin. 

 910. 



Belon av. 356 



Linaiia, Henfling, SchoFzling 

 Flacblin. Gesn-er av. 590. 



Haenfling. Frisck, i. 9. 



Aldr. av. ii. 359. 



Wil. orn. 258. 



Rati Syn. av. §0. 



Fanello. Zinan. 61. 



La Linotte. Brisson av. iii 

 131. Hist. dois. iv. 58 

 Ml 151. f. 1. 



Br.Zool.llO 



PL 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



J_ HE bill of this species is dusky, but in the 

 spring assumes a bluish cast ; the feathers on 

 the head are black edged with ash-color; the 

 3ideS of the neck deep ash-color; the throat 

 marked in the middle with a brown line, 

 bounded on each side with a white one; the 

 back black bordered with reddish brown ; the 

 bottom of the breast is of a line blood red, 

 which heightens in color as the spring advances ; 

 the belly white; the vent feathers yellowish; 

 the sides under the wings spotted with brown ; 

 the quil feathers are dusky ; the lower part of 

 the nine first are white ; the coverts incumbent 

 on them black ; the others of a reddish brown ; 

 the lowest order tipt with a paler color; the 

 tail is a little forked, of a brown color, edged 



