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one male and two females to tlie Museum ; they were consorting with Greenfinches 
and Chaffinches. Mr. A. K. Perkins shot one at Laughton on 10th Jan., 1887, 
and presented it to the Museum. 
In Eutland. — A winter visitant, sparingly distributed, though sometimes 
found in flocks. — Mr. Horn reports specimens from Ayston and Uppingham, 
but has no record of dates. 
LINNET. Linota cannahina (Linnaeus). 
“ Brown-Linnet,” “ Goss (i,e. Gorse)-Linnet.” 
Resident, and generally distributed. 
Harley occasionally found a nest on the lateral branch of an elm, some 
six or eight feet from the ground. I found a nest, on 13th June, 1884, con- 
taining five eggs (now in the Museum), built in a magnolia trained on the 
wall of Belvoir Castle. 
In Rutland. — Resident, and generally distributed. 
LESSER REDPOLL. Linota rufescens (Vieillot). 
“ Pea-Linnet,” “ Redcap.” 
Resident, and sparingly distributed. 
Harley met with its nest and eggs in North Leicestershire, in a rough 
place known at that time by the name of “ Leake Lings.” The nest was fixed 
in a thick gorse-bush five or six feet from the ground ; it was more compact 
than the nest of the Common Linnet, smaller, and more elegantly woven. He 
also met with its nest at Bardon. Mr. Davenport found a nest with three eggs, 
in May, 1883, at Ashlands, and wrote, Dec., 1887 : — “Has built at Ashlands in 
July, three years running.” According to the late Mr. R. Widdowson, it often 
breeds about Melton. In June, 1883, a nest containing three eggs was found 
at Kibworth, by Master Stuart Macaulay, built on the end of a branch of an 
elm-tree, and was presented to the Museum. 
In Rutland. — Resident, and sparingly distributed, but, as Lord Gainsborough 
remarks, “ probably often escapes observation.” No report, as yet, of its nesting, 
although Mr. Horn saw birds during the breeding season of 1886. 
TWITE. Linota flavirostris (Linnaeus). 
“ Mountain-Linnet.” 
A winter visitant, apparently of rare occurrence, although Harley wrote : — 
“ The Mountain-Linnet appears here, at times, at the close of autumn. The 
little migrant seems partial to wild tracts in which the thistle prevails. We 
occasionally meet with it in small flocks, its associates being the Brown Linnet 
