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TWITE 
jMlOTJU’TAIN" linnet. 
Linaria montana , SeT?*»* . 
Frinqilla Jiavirostris, Linnaeus. 
Linaria . Linum — Flax. Montana — Of, or belonging t> 
mountains. 
This bird is found in Europe, in Russia, but least exten¬ 
sively in an easterly direction, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, 
and as far south as Switzerland, France, Germany, and Italy. 
In Asia also, in Japan, according to M. Temminck. 
The Twite is plentiful in the northern parts of England, 
and in Scotland, Ireland, the Hebrides, and Orkney, through¬ 
out the year. 
In Yorkshire it breeds in abundance on all the high moors 
near Halifax, also on Thorne Moor; and near Doncaster, 
Leeds, and York is likewise met with. The Rev. R. P. Alington 
has procured specimens from the neighbourhood of the sea, 
in Lincolnshire. 
Indigenous in the north, they are only winter migrants 
towards the south. 
Towards the commencement of winter they unite into 
flocks, sometimes of large extent, and frequently, in illustra¬ 
tion of the adage that ‘ birds of a feather flock together,’ 
in company with those of kindred species or habits, with 
whom they visit the farm-yards. They are not of a shy 
nature, but if disturbed betake themselves to any tall trees 
that may be near, or to some distant field. When spring 
arrives, they leave their winter haunts, and disperse over the 
hilly tracts for their summer sojourn. 
Their flight is rapid and undulated, and they wheel about 
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