524 TWITE. 



The young of this species do not throw out the black feathers on 

 the neck the first year ; and the bare space about the eyes is of a grey 

 colour. 



A variety of the common turtle has been described by the name of 

 the spotted-necked turtle dove, {Lath. Syn. 4. p. 645. 40. A. — Ind. 

 Orn. 2. p. 606. 47. /3.) The difference consists in the whole side of 

 the neck being black, and, instead of those feathers being tipped with 

 white, there is a round spot of white on each, very near the end. Dr. 

 Latham says this bird was shot in Buckinghamshire, and that he ob- 

 served one of these amongst some birds that came by the last expedi- 

 tion to the South Seas ; but as it was in a parcel wherein was some 

 which belonged to the Cape of Good Hope, it is possible that this 

 might come from that place. 



TWINK.— A name for the Chaffinch. 



TWITE (Linaria montana, Ray.) 



Fringilla montium, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 917. sp. 68. — Lath. Ind. Orn. i, p. 459. sp. 

 84. — Linaria montana, Briss. 3. p. 145. 38 — Rati, Syn. p. 91. A. 4 — Will. p. 

 191. — Grosbec a gorge rouge, ou de Montaign, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 1. p. 368. 

 — Arktische Fink, Bechst. Tasschenb. p. 125. t. 9. — lb. Naturg. Deut. 2. p. 139. 



— Gelbschnabliche Fink, Naum. Vog. t. 20. f. 39 Frisch, 1. 10. f. 1 . female. 



—Mountain Linnet, Br. Zool. No. 133. t. 53. — Will. (Angl.) p. 261 Arct. 



Zool. 2. p. 380. C.—Lath. Syn. 3. p. 307. 76.—Lewin's Br. Birds, 2. t. 86— 

 — Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 13. — Bewick's Supp. to Br. Birds, t. p. 24. — Flem. Br. 

 Anim. p. 84. — Twite, Mont. Orn. Diet. 2 — Low's Faun. Oread, p. 64. — Shaio's 

 Zool. 9. p. 521 Selby, pi. 55. fig. 5. p. 278. 



Like the linnet, this species is subject to a change in the colour of 

 its plumage during a certain period, rendering its summer appearance 

 very different from that which it bears during the rest of the year. It 

 is rather larger than the linnet ; length above six inches ; the bill is 

 yellowish, brown at the tip ; irides hazel ; the top of the head and rump 

 red ; upper parts dusky black, edged with rufous ; beneath rufous white, 

 with blackish spots on the throat ; belly white. In some the whole head 

 is light rufous, streaked on the top with dusky ; the back, scapulars, 

 and wing coverts, dark rufous-brown, with paler edges ; rump tinged 

 with red ; greater quills and tail dusky black, more or less edged with 

 white on the exterior webs ; upper part of the breast and sides rufous- 

 white, spotted and streaked with dark rufous-brown ; lower part of the 

 breast, belly, and under tail coverts, white ; tail forked ; legs dusky. 

 Like the redpole, this bird is subject to much variety in respect to the 

 red markings. Some are described to have the top of the head, breast, 

 and rump, red. In its general appearance it is much like the female of 

 that bird, but darker on the upper parts, as well as more rufous on the 

 cheeks and throat ; the red on the rump is never found in that bird. 



The Twite is gregarious, accompanying the linnet in large flights, 



