. A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants . tn ►^ ro dx 0+ fc: rt •si? u ^- »—. rt • — u ^ sj o rt 00 FINCHES 81 It is so called by Pennant, Brit. Zool., 1768; byGilbert White (Letter viii. to Barrington), by Mon-tagu ( Orn. Diet SuppL, and Letter to White, 21stMay 1789), and by Markwick (Observations onMigration, Trans. Linn. Soc, 1789, p. 125). In aNew Gen. Hist. Birds, 2 vols. 12mo, 1745, it ismentioned as Aherdavine, in some places called theBarley-bird. Rutty ( N
. A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants . tn ►^ ro dx 0+ fc: rt •si? u ^- »—. rt • — u ^ sj o rt 00 FINCHES 81 It is so called by Pennant, Brit. Zool., 1768; byGilbert White (Letter viii. to Barrington), by Mon-tagu ( Orn. Diet SuppL, and Letter to White, 21stMay 1789), and by Markwick (Observations onMigration, Trans. Linn. Soc, 1789, p. 125). In aNew Gen. Hist. Birds, 2 vols. 12mo, 1745, it ismentioned as Aherdavine, in some places called theBarley-bird. Rutty ( Nat. Hist. Co. Dublin, 1772,i. pp. 315, 342) includes it as Abber de Vine. LINNET. Linota cannabina (Linnaeus). PI. 13, , 18. Length, 5*5 in.; wing, 3 in.; tarsus, 0*65 in. So called in allusion to its favourite seed, linum,flax, and cannabis, hemp. Resident and generally distributed, migratingsouthward and eastward at the approach of winter,when numbers are taken by bird-catchers. I haveseen a pure white one, which was taken near , in a monograph of the genus (Proc. Sci. Phil., 1861, p. 373; additional remarks,1863, p. 40), a
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