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BRITISH BIRDS. 
THE MOUNTAIN LINNET,, 
OR TWITE. 
(Linaria Montana.-— La Linotte de Montague , Buff.) 
A pair of these birds, male and female, with their 
nest and six eggs, were obligingly presented to this 
work, by my late pupil, Mr John Laws, of Heddon 
Laws, Northumberland. He shot them on Callerton 
Fell, near their nest, on the 15th June, 1821 ; their 
stomachs were both filled with the seed of the dande- 
lion. The male measured, stretched out, five inches in 
length and nine in breadth ; the female was a little 
larger. The bill is thick and short, and of a pale 
flesh colour ; the nostrils covered with a hairy kind of 
feathers; irides hazel; the space above and below the 
eye is of a pale tawny brown ; the throat and fore part 
of the neck the same ; the sides and hinder part of the 
latter is whitish, spotted with brown. The whole of 
the upper plumage is of a darker cast than the rest of 
