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Wick ; but E. Gray states that he has never been 

 able to examine a specimen killed in any part of 

 Scotland ("Birds West Scotland," p. 191). 



This bird is very rare in Ireland, though it has 

 been met with there more often than the Green 

 Woodpecker. Glenuon of Dublin has preserved 

 six or seven at various times, sent to him from 

 different counties. 



WRYNECK. Jynx torquilla, Linnaeus.^ PL 17, figs. 3, 

 y Sa. Length, 6-5 in. ; bill, 0-6 in. ; wing, 3-25 in. 



A summer migrant to England, rarely seen in 

 Scotland north of the Forth. On two occasions, 

 however, it has been met with in Orkney (Ann. 

 Scot. Nat Hist., 1897, p. 43), and on the 30th 

 of April 1898, one was captured alive on the 

 Island of Foula, Shetland. It died about an 

 hour afterwards, and was sent to the Museum of 

 Science and Art, Edinburgh. It was not observed 

 in Ireland until 1877, but since then it has been 

 met with on at least five occasions, viz., in Water- 

 ford, near Dunmore, Oct. 5, 1877; Rathlin Island, 

 Donegal, Oct. 1878 ; Arran Island, north light- 

 house, Oct. 6, 1886; Ashford, Co. Wicklow, May 

 .31, 189.5; and Rockabill Lighthouse, five miles 

 off Dublin, Sept. 8, 1896 (Irish Naturalist, 1898, 

 p. 16). 



The Wryneck has occasionally been seen in this 



' In departing from the customary mode of spelling the above 

 generic term, it may be desirable to indicate its derivation — namely, 

 * Ivyl, vyyos, SO called from its shrill cry, th. Iv^io. 



