262 BRITISH AND EUROPEAN BIRDS. 



There dwell pleasures worth possessing, 



In yon cot beside the hill, 

 Where content, pure love caressing, 



Listens to the crystal rill. ( 46 ) 



(* c ) The Fringilla Linota, Linnet, Common-Linnet, or 

 Brown-Linnet, sometimes called also, I believe, Grey-Linnet, is 

 chesnut-brown, beneath whitish ; bottom of the breast blood-red 

 in the male, in the female streaked with brown. Size of the 

 Greater -Redpole. Eggs five, whitish, with chesnut spots; sings 

 delightfully. It appears that, from occasional variations in its 

 colours, this bird is often confounded with the Greater*Redpole ; 

 indeed, Montagu asserts, that both this and the Redpole are 

 one and the same species. See the description of the Redpole 

 in note 44. 



For a description of the Green-Linnet, Loxia Chloris, 

 see page 175. 



