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Subfamily YUNGIN AL. 
Genus Yunx. 
Only three or four species are known of this very anomalous 
Old-World form. Their range extends over a great portion of the 
northern regions of Asia, entering Japan, and one species Eastern 
and Southern Africa. 
O13. Yunx rokovitA 4... 22 « (+ SVol il, Pieisaeaye: 
WRYNECK. 
A true harbinger of spring, arrives before the Swallow, serenades 
us with its peculiar cry of Pee-pee-pae, and but seldom exposes its 
body to view. Is generally distributed over England and the 
southern portion of Scotland. Our Irish ornithologists must regret 
that it does not visit their country ; for a more curious creature does 
not exist. Many of its actions, and the character of its markings, 
have procured for it the trivial name of ‘ Snakebird.” 
