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trying to give numbers. We captured a few Blackbirds 
and Fieldfares.’ 
On the 11th and 12th this rush was continued, but on 
the latter night there were, the observer says, no Linnets. 
On 29th March 1888 Mr. F. 8. Graves, when crossing to 
Douglas, saw a few Linnets at sea. 
The Linnet is well distributed over the British mainland, 
and is common in Ireland, into which considerable winter 
immigration takes place. It is resident in Orkney, but its 
larger numbers occur there on migration, on which it has 
also been observed in Shetland. It is doubtfully recorded 
from the Outer Hebrides, but in all these islands its place 
as a breeding species is occupied by the Twite. It is 
abundant in Galloway, and not uncommon in the north- 
western counties of England. 
LINOTA RUFESCENS (Vieillot). 
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Mr. Kermode, in his early list, says that this species is 
an infrequent resident, whose numbers are increased in 
winter. There is little information about it available, but 
it is probably more common than is generally supposed. 
Mr. G. Adams, who is well acquainted with the bird, and 
has had several specimens, said in 1892 that there were in 
that year two or three nests about the Nunnery, and that it 
bred there regularly. On 7th June 1900 Mr. F. S. Graves 
saw a party in the Ballaugh Curragh, and he knows of its 
occurrence in earlier years in the Peel district. In June 
1905 he met with a number, undoubtedly breeding, in the 
Barrule plantation. 
In Ireland this little bird is resident, common, and widely 
