lin·net 
(lĭnĭt)
(lĭnĭt)n.
A small finch (Carduelis cannabina) of Eurasia and Africa with brownish plumage, the male of which has red on the head and breast.
[Obsolete French linette, from Old French, from lin, flax (from its feeding on flax seed), from Latin līnum; see lno- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]