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THE WRYNECK. 



lynx torquilla (L.). 



The records relating to this species were mostly of solitary 

 birds, and hence not very hel])ful in the elucidation of its 

 miffratorv movements. It seems to have arrived on the 

 south-eastern ])ortion of our coast-lines. 



The first arrival noted was in Berkshire on the 17th of 

 March, and single birds were reported from Kent, Hamp- 

 shire and Berkshire on the 20th, 25th and 27th, and from 

 Somersetshire on the 29th. A few birds were recorded on 

 passage in Kent on the 2nd of April, and represented pro- 

 bably the first immigratory movement. Other immigrations 

 seem to have taken place about the 14tb, 15th and 17th, 

 but beyond a gradual spread of the species towards the 

 west and north, no further deduction can be drawn from 

 the records. 



With the exception of one bird seen in Cheshire on the 11th 

 of A[)ril, the western and northern limit of the Wryneck's 

 range, as revealed by the records, was a line drawn from 

 I)(!vonshire through Somerset, Worcester and I\Iontgomery, 

 and thence east through Shropshire, Leicester and North- 

 ampton. No notes as to its nesting were received, nor was 

 it reported from any of the lights. 



Chronological Summary of the Records. 



]\Iarch 17th. Berks, 



20th. Kent. 



„ 25th. Hants. 



27th. Berks. 



2'.)lh. Somerset. 



