120 YUNGINA. 
Deccan, where it replaces B. awrantius, from which it is only 
doubtfully distinct. 
SUB-FAMILY, Yunginee. 
Bill short, conical, somewhat round, straight, pointed; nostrils 
basal, approximate, near the culmen, narrow, pierced in the 
membrane, apert ; wings moderate, pointed, second and third 
quills subequal, but third the longest, first nearly as long, and 
fourth only a little shorter ; tail moderate, flexible, broad, slightly 
rounded, or nearly even, of twelve feathers, the two outer small, 
as in the Woodpeckers; tarsus short, with the toes in pairs; 
posterior (outer) toe long but equal to the anterior outer; hind 
and inner-toes short ; claws well curved and compressed. 
Genus, Yunx, (Jynz.) 
Similar to the sub-family, of which it is the only genus. 
Yunx ([ynx) torquilla, Zin. 
188.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 303; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 459 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 386; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 115; 
Tynx torquilla, Jerd.; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; 
Ibis, 1885, p. 62. 
THE ComMon WRYNECK. 
Length, 7:5; expanse, 11°5; wing, 3°5; tail, 2°5; tarsus, 0:98 ; 
bill at front, 0°5; bill from gape, 0°78. 
Biil horny-brown ; irides crimson ; legs greenish-horny. 
Above, a beautiful speckled grey, with a broad irregular line 
from the crown to the middle of the back, dark brown, with 
black stripes; lores whitish, and sometimes the chin; sides of 
the throat, cheeks, and breast, pale buff-yellow, with narrow 
transverse bars; a brown stripe runs from each eye through the 
ear-coverts, extending along the side of the neck, and another 
darker and narrower from the base of the lower mandible down 
the sides of the throat ; between these is a buff or isabella band, 
finally becoming albescent; breast and upper part of the belly 
fulvous-white with narrow cross lines, pointed anteriorly, and 
passing into small triangular black linear spots on the lower 
abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts, which are whitish; the 
wings are fulvous-brown, minutely speckled, and with some 
fulvous spots, and a black longitudinal band on the scapulars ; 
lower part of belly fulvous-white, with narrow cross lines, pointed 
anteriorly, passing into small triangular black linear spots; the 
quills are barred with deep brown and isabella; rump and tail 
speckled grey, the former with black longitudinal streaks, the 
latter with three darker broad bands, and a fourth subterminal 
one. 
The Wryneck, though not common, occurs throughout our limits 
as a cold weather visitant. 
