GREENFINCH (Ger. Griinfink), or

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• GREEN, A
• GREEN, ALEXANDER HENRY (1832—1896)
• GREEN, DUFF (1791—1875)
• GREEN, JOHN RICHARD (1837—1883)
• GREEN, MATTHEW (1696-1737)
• GREEN, THOMAS HILL (1836-1882)
• GREEN, VALENTINE (1739–1813)
• GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY (.1825–1900)

GREEN

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• LINNET, O

LINNET  , as it is very often called, a common European bird, the Fringilla chloris of Linnaeus, ranked by many systematists with one section of haw-finches, Coccothraustes, but apparently more nearly allied to the other section Hesperiphona, and perhaps justifiably deemed the type of a distinct genus, to which the name Chlorin or Ligurinus has been applied . The cock, in his plumage of yellowish-green and yellow is one of the most finely coloured of common English birds, but he is rather heavily built, and his song is hardly commended . The hen is much less brightly tinted: Throughout Britain, as a rule, this species is one of the most plentiful birds, and is found at all seasons of the year . It pervades almost the whole of Europe, and in Asia reaches the river Ob . It visits Palestine, but is unknown in Egypt . It is, however, abundant in Mauritania, whence specimens are so brightly coloured that they have been deemed to form a distinct species, the Ligurinus aurantiiventris of Dr Cabanis, but that view is now generally abandoned . In the north-east of Asia and its adjacent islands occur two allied species—the Fringilla sinica of Linnaeus and the F. kawarahiba of Temminck . (A .