LINNET.
LLINOS BEN-GOCH FWYAF, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH.
BROWN LINN ET. COMMON LINN BT. GREATER LINNET.
RED-BREASTED LINNET. ORE'S LINNET. ROSE LINNET. WHIN LINNET.
LINTIE. GREY LINTIE.
Linaria cannabina, MACGILLIVRAY.
Fringilla cannabina, LINXJEUS. LATHAM.
Fringilla Lino/a, LATHAM.
Linota cannabina, PRINCE OF MUSIGNANO.
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, Guernsey and Sark, Orkney, and Zetland.
The Linnel is easily reared from the nest.
Towards the end of autumn individuals collect together in flocks,
and these 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. 1 remember picking
up nine which I once shot in Berkshirej and I saw in the
newspaper a few years since, that, 'si rite recordor,' upwards of a
hundred and forty were killed at one fell discharge. In Yorkshire
they are frequent in most districts, especially the moorlands. Sometimes
they join with other birds of the Finch tribe, but generally