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PLATE CLXII. 



TRINGILLA LINARIA |3, 

 TWITE. 

 Passeres. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER, 

 Bill conic, ftraight and pointed. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Above varied, beneath reddifli, abdomen whitifli : eye-brows and 

 band on the wings pale rufous : crown and rump red. 

 Fringilla Linaria: fupra varia, fubtus rufefcens, abdomine 



albido, fuperciliis fafciaque alarum rufefcentibus, 

 vertice uropygioque rubris. Lath. Ind. Orn> 

 459. 83. 

 Twite. Alhln, 3. /. 74. 

 Lev, Muf, 



The Twite was formerly confidered as a variety of the mountain 

 Linnet *, and at a later period has been placed with doubt as a variety 



* The Mountain Linnet itfelf has borne fucceflivsly the fpecific names piplaus and 

 montium. 



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