PLATE CLXVHL 



FRINGILLA LINOTA, 



COMMON GREY LINNET. 

 Passeres. 



GENERIC CH ARACTER. 



Bill conic, flraight, and pointed, 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Chefnut brown, beneath whitiHi ; wings with a longitudinal white 



band : tail feathers each fide edged with white. 



FrinGILLA Linota: fufca caftanea, fubtus albida, fafcia alarum 



longitudinali alba, re61;ricibus nigris, marginibus 

 undique albis. Gmel, Linn. Syji, Nat. 1.^.916. 

 Lath, Ind, Orn, 4:57, 



Common Linnet. 



This ranks among the fong birds of Britain ; it is very common in 

 England and thrgughgut Europe. It feeds on feeds, principally 

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