. Our favourite song birds ; their habits, music, and characteristics . parts are total length of this bird is about five inches. THE LINNET LiNOTA CANNABINA The well-known and favourite Linnet is one ofthe most widely distributed of British birds. It iscommonly dispersed ov^er England, Wales, Scot-land and Ireland, even extending to many of theHebrides and the Orkneys, but not to the Shet-lands. In the wilder and more remote northernand western districts it is more local, and in someplaces appears entirely to be replaced by thenearly allied Twite. The Linnet is a widelyranging con
. Our favourite song birds ; their habits, music, and characteristics . parts are total length of this bird is about five inches. THE LINNET LiNOTA CANNABINA The well-known and favourite Linnet is one ofthe most widely distributed of British birds. It iscommonly dispersed ov^er England, Wales, Scot-land and Ireland, even extending to many of theHebrides and the Orkneys, but not to the Shet-lands. In the wilder and more remote northernand western districts it is more local, and in someplaces appears entirely to be replaced by thenearly allied Twite. The Linnet is a widelyranging continental species also, being found inall suitable localities throughout Europe and South-western Siberia as far east as the Altai West Europe, however, it does not appear torange north of lat. 64°; in East Europe fivedegrees lower still. It is resident in the Canariesand Madeira, as well as in North-west Africa,but in North-east Africa, as far south as Abyssinia,it is a winter migrant only; whilst in the extremenorth of its range it is a summer ^UvV-Xvd / y , I, IJV^^^^^^\ V Linn El THE LINNET 217 The Brown Linnet, Gorse Linnet, or * Lintie,as it is otherwise known, is a resident in the BritishIslands, but subject to much locaj movement. Itsnumbers are also increased in autumn by largeflocks from the Continent; and some authoritiesassert that at the same season a considerable south-ward movement takes place amongst our indigenousbirds : this we are inclined to doubt. The same adverse circumstances that have sodisastrously reduced the Goldfinch in numbersseem to have affected the Linnet in a similar is certainly not as common in many places as itused to be ; and this can be traced to the wantonwholesale capture by bird-catchers, and thereclamation of much waste ground which wasformerly its favourite retreats. The haunts of theLinnet vary somewhat according to season. Inautumn and winter they are stubbles, rough pas-tures, commons, and the unenclose
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