Twite the birds to the east of the Pennine hills move to the southeast coast in winter and those to the west winter between Lancashire and the Hebrides. The Welsh population winters almost exclusively in Flintshire. In 1758 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus included the twite in the 10th edition of his "Systema Naturae" under the binomial name "Fringilla flavirostris". The genus name "linaria" is the Latin for a linen-weaver, from "linum", "flax" and "flavirostris" means yellow-billed. The twite and the closely related linnets were at one time placed in the genus "Carduelis" but were moved to a separate genus "Linaria"
A Gentle Creature A Gentle Creature "A Gentle Creature" (), sometimes also translated as "The Meek One", is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1876. The piece comes with the subtitle of "A Fantastic Story", and it chronicles the relationship between a pawnbroker and a girl that frequents his shop. The story was inspired by a news report that Dostoyevsky read in April 1876 about the suicide of a seamstress. Dostoyevsky referred to it as a "meek suicide" that "keeps haunting you for a long time." The story opens with the narrator in a frenzy about an apparent tragedy that has just