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linnet🔊

A small passerine bird, the common linnet (Linaria cannabina, syn. Carduelis cannabina), in the finch family Fringillidae, native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa.

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I do but sing because I must, / And pipe but as the linnets sing: / And unto one her note is gay, / ⁠For now her little ones have ranged; / ⁠And unto one her note is changed, / Because her brood is stol’n away.

(US) A house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus), of North America.

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