152 AVES INSESSORES. [Yimx. 



GEN. 39. YUNX, Linn. 



121. Y. Torquilla, Linn. (Wryneck.) Upper parts 

 yellowish gray, irregularly spotted and lined with brown 

 and black ; a broad black mesial stripe on the back of the 

 neck. 



Y. Torquilla, Ternm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 403. Id. torn. in. 

 p. 284. Wryneck, Mont. Orn. Diet. Selb. Illust. vol. i. p. 381. 

 pi. 38. f. 1. Sew. Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 129. 



DIMENS. Entire length seven inches four lines: length of the bill 

 (from the forehead) six lines, (from the gape) nine lines and a half ; of 

 the tarsus eight lines and a half; of the tail two inches eight lines; from 

 the carpus to the end of the wing three inches six lines : breadth, wings 

 extended, eleven inches. 



DESCRIPT. General colour of the upper plumage reddish or yellowish 

 gray, irregularly spotted and marked with various shades of brown and 

 black ; more particularly a broad black mesial streak extending from the 

 occiput to the upper part of the back : throat and fore part of the neck 

 reddish yellow, with transverse undulating dusky lines ; rest of the under 

 parts whitish, with arrow-shaped black spots : quills marked on the outer 

 webs with oblong red spots : tail-feathers rounded at the end, mottled like 

 the back, with four transverse black bars : irides yellowish brown : bill 

 and feet brown. (Egg.) Smooth, delicate white : long. diam. nine lines 

 and a half; trans, diam. seven lines. 



A summer visitant, first appearing about the second week in April. 

 Not very uncommon in wooded districts throughout the southern, mid- 

 land, and eastern counties : said to be more rare in the West of Eng- 

 land. Utters a loud and oft-repeated cry during the breeding season, 

 somewhat resembling that of the Kestril Hawk. Food principally ants. 

 Eggs six to ten in number, deposited in the holes of trees on the rotten 

 wood, without a nest. 



GEN. 40. CERTHIA, Linn. 



122. C. familiaris, Linn. (Common Creeper.) Upper 

 parts yellowish brown ; variegated with dusky, and white 

 spots : rump reddish yellow. 



C. familiaris, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 410. Id. torn. in. p. 288. 

 Common Creeper, Mont. Orn. Diet. Selb. Illust. vol. i. p. 388. 

 pi. 39. f. 2. Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 148. 



DIMENS. Entire length five inches: length of the bill (from the fore- 

 head) five lines and three quarters, (from the gape) seven lines ; of the 

 tarsus seven lines; of the tail two inches one line and a half; from the 

 carpus to the end of the wing two inches four lines : breadth, wings 

 extended, seven inches three lines. 



DESCRIPT. Head, and all the upper parts, yellowish brown, mixed 

 with dusky, with an oblong whitish spot in the centre of each feather ; 

 rump rust-red ; above the eyes a whitish streak : all the under parts 

 white, tinged with reddish on the lower part of the abdomen : quills 

 tipped with white ; the four first dusky, the rest with a broad transverse 

 reddish white bar about the middle : tail-feathers long, stiff, and acumi- 



