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LINNET. 
BEOWN LINNET. COMMON LINNET. 
OBEATEB EEDPOLE. EED-BBEASTED LINNET. OBEY LINNET. 
BOSE LINNET. WHIN LINNET. 
Linaria cannabina , 
Fringilia cannabina , 
“ linota , 
Linota cannabina , 
Linaria—Linum— Flax. Cannabina — Belonging to canes or reeds. 
Canna — A cane or reed. 
This species is an inhabitant of Europe, being found in 
Denmark, Russia, Norway, and Sweden; France, Spain, Italy, 
Holland, Germany, Crete, Corfu, and other islands of the 
Mediterranean, and the Levant; as also in Asia, throughout 
Asia Minor, Persia, and in Japan, according to Temminck. 
In this country it is generally distributed throughout the 
year in England, Scotland, Ireland, Orkney, and Zetland. 
The Linnet is easily reared from the nest. 
Towards the end of autumn individuals collect together in 
flocks, and those again as winter advances, further unite, often 
to their own destruction; a too dense crowding together 
proving fatal to them as well as to their superiors in the 
scale of creation. I remember picking up nine which I once 
shot in Berkshire; and I saw in the newspaper a few years 
since, that, ‘si rite recorder,’ upwards of a hundred and forty 
were killed at one fell discharge. Sometimes they join with 
other birds of the Finch tribe, but generally keep to them¬ 
selves. In spring, the flocks break up, and leave, for the 
most part, the cultivated districts of the country, to which 
jfchey* had betaken themselves, for the more hilly and moun¬ 
tainous regions of the north; rejoicing in the wild heather, 
Macgillivray. 
Linn^ius. Latham. 
Latham. 
Phince of Musignano. Yakrell. 
