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The Mountain Linnet : Linaria Montana/ 



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THis was found by Mr. Fr.JeJfop in the Mountains of- the Peak, of Derby/hire, 

 and lent to us. It is twice as big as the precedent. The colour of its Head 

 and Back is the fame with that of the common Linnet ; for the middle parts of the fea- 

 thers of bothareblack, buttheoutfides or edges of thole on the Back .red, on the 

 Head cinereous. The middle parts of the feathers on the Throat and Bread are alfo 

 black, but the edges whitifh. Only the Rump is of a very fair Alining fcarlet or 

 Orange-tawny colour. The edges of the middle quil- feathers of the Wings are 

 white, as are alfo the tips ofthofeof the fecond row. The Tail is two inches and 

 an half long, confiding of twelve feathers, of which the two middle are all over of 

 one uniform brown or dusky colour. Of the reft, as well the outer as inner edges, 

 are white .• Thefe white edges in the outmoft feathers are broader than in the reft. Its 

 Bill is like that of the precedent, viz. lefs for the proportion of its body than that of 

 the fecond fpecies. The whole bird from Bill to Tail was fix inches and an half long 5 

 to the Claws five and an half. ^ 



Chap. XII. 

 77;e Siskin : Spinus Cwe Ligurinus. ^ 



ITs Head is black. The upper fide of its body, -viz. Neck and Back are green. 

 Yet the * (hafts of the feathers on the Back are black 5 and the -Neck being darker * This wor a 

 than the Back feems to partake fomething of the colour of the Head. The is to be taken 

 Rump is of a greeniih yellow: The Throat and Bread of a yellowilh green : The J^ddil pari 

 Belly white: The feathers under the Tail yellowifti, with oblong dusky (pots in the about the 

 middledown the fhaft. The feathers alfo inverting the fides are fpotted in the middle &***• ' 

 with brown. The Hen ispaler and more difcoloured. Her Throat and fides under 

 her Wings are white, the middle parts of the feathers being fpotted with brown. The 

 Head and Back are of a greeniih alh-colour, with brown fpots in the middle. The 

 Throat and Breaft have lefs of green. 



The Wings are croffed l by a broad line or bed of yellow. The Pinion-quill of 

 the Wing is all over dusky, only the edges green. Of the nine following the outer 

 Webs are green 5 the green part is widened by degrees in every feather, till in the laft 

 it take up half the length. From the tenth almoft the lower half of each feather is 

 yellow, the upper black. The exteriour covert- feathers of the Wings are black, the 

 edges of the interiour green. The Tail confifts of twelve feathers, the two middle- 

 moft black : Thereft above half way of a moft lovely yellow, with black tips. The 

 uppermoft tips of the feathers, as well in the Wings as in the Tail, are grey. The 

 lower Mandible of the Bill hath an eminency or angle on each fide, received in the 

 upper. The Tongue is (harp, horny at the tip, and channelled : The Eyes hazel- 

 coloured. The outer and middle Toe have the like cohefion at bottom as in other 

 birds. 



It is kept in Cages for its finging : It is common in Germany arid 'England. At Vi- 

 enna in Anuria they called it SeijeL, a name not much different from our Englifi Sis kin. 

 In Snjjex it is known by the name of Barley-bird, fo called becaufe it comes to them 

 in Barley-feed time. All the Winter, and in the beginning of the Spring, it flies in 

 flocks. Its differsfrom the two folio wing birds, 1. In that it is a little bigger : 2. It 

 hath a longer Bill: 3. A black Head: 4. A {horter Tail, more than half yellow : 

 5. Aftrakeor bed of -.yellow crofs its Wings. 



Aldrovandxs writes, thatit feldom or never appears in cold Countries, as France 

 and England, as Bellonim and others report : But we have by experience learnt th£ **' 

 contrary. It is of a very mild nature, and not at all crafty, Co that it is eafily taken 

 by any kind of engine or deceit. 



This bird is called by An ftotk and the ancient Greeks 'AjtapGk, as Aldrovandus is 

 of opinion. X^^allo is the name of a bird, fuppofed to be this, as well with the 

 Greeks as with the Latines. 



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