Twite Twite The twite ("Linaria flavirostris") is a small brown passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It is similar in size and shape to a linnet, at long. It lacks the red head patch and breast shown by the linnet and the redpolls. It is brown streaked with black above, and a pink rump. The underparts are buff to whitish, streaked with brown. The conical bill is yellow in winter and grey in summer. The call is a distinctive "twit", from which its name derives, and the song contains fast trills and twitters. Twites can form large flocks outside the
Is (novel) Is (novel) Is, known in the United States as Is Underground, is the eighth book in the series of novels by Joan Aiken normally called the Wolves Chronicles and sometimes the "James III" sequence. Where previous books have followed the characters Bonny, Sylvia, Simon, and the street-urchin, Dido Twite, this marks the first appearance of Dido's sister Is Twite as the protagonist. The story follows Is from London to the fictional town of Blastburn in the north of England, in her quest to discover the mystery behind the disappearance of many London children and to track down two missing boys