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PICID^ 



lYNX 



Genus I. lYNX. 



Type. 



Jynx, Linn. Fauna Stiec. no. 97 (1746) I. torquilla. 



Yunx, Linn. Sijst. Nat. i, p. 172 (1766) I. torquilla. 



Bill of moderate length, conical and compressed; plumage soft 

 brownish-grey and speckled, somewhat resembling that of a Night- 

 Jar. 



Four species of Wrynecks have been described ; of these the best 

 known (I. torquilla) is found all over Europe and Asia, wintering in 

 India and northern and central Africa ; the other three are purely 

 Ethiopian in their range. 



Fig. 46.— Tail of lyno: mficollia. 



443. lynx ruficollis. South African Wryneck. 



lynx ruficollis, Wagler, Nat. Syst. Am2)h. p. 118 (1830). 



Yunx pectoralis, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 98; Gurney, Ibis, 1862, 



p. 33 [Natal] ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 240 (1867) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's 



B. S. Afr. pp. 191, 812 (1875-84). 

 Ij-nx pectoralis, .4 1/7'es, Ibis, 1879, p. 300 [Eustenburg] ; Oates, Matabele- 



Imnl, p. 306 (1881j [Upper Natal] ; Bv tier, Feilde7i, and Beid, Zool. 



