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time, these names have been held to distinguish at least two species; but there is now no question among ornithologists on this point, though the conditions under which the See also:

bright See also:

CRIMSON

crimson-red colouring of the See also:

BREAST (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. the Ger. Brust, possibly connected with an O. Sax. brustian, to bud)

breast and See also:

CROWN

crown of the See also:

COCK, EDWARD (1805-1892)

cock's See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring and summer plumage is donned and doffed may still be open to discussion. Its intensity seems due, however, in some degree at least, to the weathering of the brown fringes of the feathers which hide the more brilliant See also:

hue, and in the See also:

ATLANTIC

Atlantic islands examples are said to retain their See also:

gay tints all the year See also:

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round, while throughout Europe there is scarcely a trace of them visible in autumn and winter; but, beginning to appear in spring, they reach their greatest brilliancy towards midsummer; they are never assumed by examples in confinement. The linnet begins to breed in See also:

APRIL

April, the See also:

NEST

nest being generally placed in a See also:

BUSH

bush at no great distance from the ground. It is nearly always a neat structure composed of See also:

FINE

fine twigs, roots or bents, and lined with See also:

WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool or See also:

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair.

The eggs, often six in number, are of a very See also:

PALE (through Fr. pal, from Lat. palms, a stake, for paglus, from the stem pag- of pangere, to fix; " pole " is from the same original source)

pale See also:

BLUE (common in different forms to most European languages)

blue marked with reddish or purplish brown. Two broods seem to be common in the course of the season, and towards the end of summer the birds—the See also:

young greatly preponderating in number—collect in large flocks and move to the See also:

sea-See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast, whence a large See also:

pro-portion depart for more See also:

SOUTHERN

southern latitudes. Of these emigrants some return the following spring, and are recognizable by the more advanced See also:

state of their plumage, the effect presumably of having wintered in countries enjoying a brighter and hotter See also:

sun. Nearly allied to the foregoing species is the twite, so named from its See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary See also:

CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call-See also:

note, or See also:

mountain-linnet, the Linota flavirostris, or L. montium of ornithologists, which can be distinguished by its yellow See also:

BILL

bill, longer tail and reddish-tawny See also:

THROAT (O. Eng. protu, prote or }Prota, possibly from preotan, to press, whence threat, or, with loss of initial s, connected with strut, to swell)

throat. This bird never assumes any crimson on the crown or breast, but the male has the rump at all times tinged more or ' E.g. Fr. Linotte, Ger. Hanfling, Swed. See also:

Ham piing.less with that See also:

COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour. In Great Britain in the breeding-season it seems to affect exclusively hilly and moorland districts from See also:

HEREFORDSHIRE

Herefordshire northward, in which it partly or wholly replaces the common linnet, but is very much more See also:

LOCAL

local in its See also:

DISTRIBUTION (Lat. distribuere, to deal out)

distribution, and, except in the See also:

BRITISH

British Islands and some parts of Scandinavia, it only appears as an irregular visitant in winter. At that season it may, however, be found in large flocks in the See also:

low-lying countries, and as regards England even on the sea-See also:

SHORE

shore. In Asia it seems to be represented by a kindred See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form L. brevirostris.

The redpolls form a little See also:

GROUP

group placed by many authorities in the genus Linota, to which they are unquestionably closely allied, and, as stated elsewhere (see See also:

FINCH), the linnets seem to be related to the birds of the genus Leucosticte, the species of which inhabit the northern parts of See also:

North-See also:

West See also:

AMERICA

America and of Asia. L. tephrocotis is generally of a See also:

CHOCOLATE

chocolate colour, tinged on some parts with pale crimson or See also:

PINK

pink, and has the crown of the See also:

head silvery-grey. Another species, L. arctoa, was formerly said to have occurred in North America, but its proper See also:

home is in the Kurile Islands or See also:

KAMCHATKA

Kamchatka. This has no red in its plumage. The birds of the genus Leucosticte seem to be more terrestrial in their See also:

HABIT (through the French from Lat. habitus, from habere, to have, hold, or, in a reflective sense, to be in a certain condition; in many of the English senses the French use habitude, not habit)

habit than those of Linota, perhaps from their having been chiefly observed where trees are scarce; but it is possible that the mutual relationship of the two See also:

groups is more apparent than real. Allied to Leucosticte is Montifringilla, to which belongs the See also:

SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

snow-finch of the See also:

ALPS

Alps, M. nivalis, often mistaken by travellers for the snow-See also:

bunting, Plectrophanes nivalis. (A.

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