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LYON ON EI EE Crass II. 
330.Linnet, Belon av. 356. _ Raii fyn. av. 90. 
Linaria, Henfling, Schofzling, Fanello. Zzzan. 61. | 
Flacklin. Ge/zer av. 590. La Linotte. Brifin av. Il. 
Haenfling. Frifch, I. 9. 131. 
Aldr. av. Il. 359. Pl eal. 53. Hoe 
Wil. orn. 258. Br. Zool. 110. 
Descrip. 
— bill of this fpecies is dufky, but in the 
~~ fpring affumes a bluifh caft: the feathers’ 
on the head are black edged with afh color: the 
fides of the neck deep afh color: the throat marked 
in the middle with a brown line; bounded on each 
fide with a-white one: the back black bordered 
with reddifh brown: the bottom of the breaft is of 
a fine blood red, which heighthens in color as the 
fpring advances: the belly white: the vent feathers 
yellowifh : the fides under the wings fpotted with 
brown: the quil-feathers are dufky; the lower part 
of the nine firft white: the coverts incumbent on 
them black; the others of a reddifh brown; the 
loweft order tipt with a paler color: the tail is a 
little forked, of a brown color, edged with white; 
the two middle feathers excepted, which are bor- 
Gered with dull red. The females.and young birds 
want the red fpot on the breaft; in lieu of that, 
their breafts are marked with fhort ftreaks of brown 
pointing downwards: the females have alfo lefs 
white in their wings. 
Thefe 
