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GREENFINCH. 
G-rsenrincn, green linnet, or green bird, is 
of a hardy nature, and rather larger than the chaf- 
finch. The head and back of the cock are green, edg- 
ed with grey. The middle of the back inclining to 
chefnut. ‘Lhe fore part of the head, neck, breatft, » 
quite down the belly and rump, are of a yellow © 
green. ‘ke 
Foop.....The fame as the chafiinch. 
—SoPeME NE MCI40e— 
COMMON LINNET, 
| "Varts bird is faid to excel all the fmall Englifh,— 
birds in finging. ‘The note is curious; and he can © 
imitate-the fong of: any other bird. ‘The cock has a 
browner back than the hen, and more white in its 
wings. When the wings are full grown, fecond, 
third, or fourth feather, is white up to the quill. 
Foop.....They fhould be fed with feed gathered 
from the land where they are taken, mixed with a 
little bruifed hemp feed.—When caged, give them a 
fmall quantity of Canary, anda few corns of hemp. 
if drooping, a little lettuce feed, and a {mall piece. 
of liquorice, or faffron put into their water. Chick 
weed is alfo a great refterative to the linnet. | 
