This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
[Fr. linot.] A well-known song-bird, widely distributed in Europe and in the northwest of Africa. It is barely 6 inches in length, feeds on soft seeds, and forms its nest of soft stems and moss, lined with wool and down, in which it lays from four to six eggs of a bluish-white ground, speckled with reddish-brown, and generally rears two broods in a season.
 
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