Front:
Ap
LINNET
16:
by Winifred Austen
Back:
COPYRIGHT.
BIRD SERIES.
"WINIFRED AUSTEN"
AND LONDON.
DUNDEE
PUBLISHED BY VALENTINE & SONS, LTD.,
Valentine's
Linnet.-
(Carduelis Cannabina Cannabina).
One of our most loved songsters, it is brown
with a crimson forehead and breast, and can
be seen chiefly on hills and gorsy heaths.
The nest is of grass, hair, wool and down,
usually found in gorse bush and has 4 to 6
eggs-pale blue-white with dark specks. Lives
on weed-seeds and insects. Length 51″.
5660
GT. BRITAIN
