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 Kind of Anger his past anger at his business failure and at his unfaithful girlfriend, was now driven by 'a new kind of anger', anger against Lucia's enemies. Towards the end of the book Sanger revises his opinion. He now thinks that what drives Piet isn't new but as old as the hills: he has discovered his vocation as a crook. Following his suicide attempt, instead of prescribing pills and electro-shock treatment, his psychiatrists should just have told him to go rob a bank. The title itself thus adds to the numerous comments throughout the text which help to create the novel's comically