70 TWITE 
distributed. It breeds in Down and Antrim. In Great 
Britain it is largely a winter visitor in the south, more 
frequent and abundant as a resident in the north and in 
Scotland. In Galloway, Cumberland, and Lancashire it is 
locally resident; in the English counties at least being 
more widely dispersed in winter. Messrs. Oldham and 
Coward found it plentiful in Anglesea. It has been re- 
corded from Shetland and Orkney, in the latter of which 
it is said to nest. Its occurrence in the Outer Hebrides 
was doubtful until recently, but a nest has been taken 
in Barra. 
LINOTA FLAVIROSTRIS (Linn.). TWITE. 
In his list published 1888 Mr. Kermode merely states 
‘Resident in small numbers, and in his article of 1901 he 
gives no further particulars. 
By Mitchell ‘Manx Linnet’ is given as a Lancashire 
name of the species. The late A. G. More recorded it as 
Manx from specimens sent by the late J. F. Crellin. (See 
Life and Letters of A. G. More, p. 430, where ‘The Distri- 
bution of Birds in Great Britain’ is reprinted.) 
By the kindness of Mr. C. B. Moffat, I am enabled to give 
further particulars from his correspondence with Mr. More. 
On 19th July 1862 Dr. Crellin writes from West Hill 
House, Castletown: ‘I now send you a small bird which I 
hope will prove to be the Twite or Mountain Linnet. It is 
a bird which is rare here. I went yesterday with a friend 
to the mountain in this neighbourhood on purpose to look 
for some. We saw two couple only of them, and I got 
him to shoot at three, but he killed only one, which I now 
send. Ithink it is ahen bird. My friend fancied it might 
