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numbers, insectivorous and arboreal, but not 

 possessing all the structure for a climbing life, or 

 strength to dig out the burrowing larvae of 

 insects. It has been placed among the sub-family 

 of the Barbets or JBucconina* and is the only 

 representation of it which we have in the British, 

 or, indeed, in the European Fauna. 



YUNX, Linn. Generic characters. Bill 

 straight, nearly round, dilated at the base ; 

 tongue long ; feet zygodactyle, exterior toes 

 nearly equal in length, and to the tarsus ; 

 wings with the first quill very minute, third 

 longest, second and fourth nearly equal ; tail 

 ample, soft, very slightly rounded. 



Type. Y. torquilla. 



Note. Europe, Asia. 



YUNX TORQUILLA, WRYNECK. Yunx tor- 

 quilla, Will. Linn. fyc. Wryneck of British 

 authors. This chaste and delicately marked bird 

 is a beautiful example of the pleasing eifects of 

 the blending of a few simple colours ; gray, brown, 

 with shades of yellowish white, forming nearly the 

 only tints, but so distributed as to produce a whole 

 which gives satisfaction to every observer. The 

 Wryneck is a summer visiter to our island, arriving 

 about the same period with most of our other 

 migratory birds. It, however, does not extend 

 in any numbers, or with regularity, to the northern 

 or the midland counties of England ; but south- 



