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that it is very common along the frontier between Thayetmyo and Tonghoo. 

 Mr. Davison found it generally distributed over the better-wooded portions 

 of Tenasserim, and Capt. Bingham in the Thoungyeen valley. 



Mr. Blyth records it from Darjeeling ; but I do not know on what 

 authority. 



This lovely Nightjar frequents hilly country where the forest is dense 

 and the ground broken up by rivers and ravines. It comes out rather 

 late in the evening, and at first flies at a great height. As the darkness 

 deepens it descends and flies quite close to the ground. These birds 

 associate in large flocks ; and Capt. Bingham made the discovery that 

 during the day they roost in caves. Mr. Davison found an egg of this 

 bird at Malewoon in January on the ground; it was cream-colour, 

 marked with lilac-grey. 



Order III. PICI. 



Family PICID^E. 



Subfamily lYNGIN^. 



Genus IYNX *, Linn. 



420. IYNX TORQUILLA. 

 THE COMMON WRYNECK. 



Yunx torquilla, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 172 ; Malh. Mon. Pic. ii. p. 289, pi. cxxi. fig. 4 ; 

 Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 303 ; Hume, Nests and Eyys, p. 128 ; id. S. F. iii. p. 75 j 

 Dresser, Birds Eur. v. p. 103, pi. ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 458 ; David 

 et Oust. Ols. Chine, p. 55 ; Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi. p. 149 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 88. 

 lynx torquilla, Smidev. Consp. Av. Pic. p. 107 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 78 ; Biddulph, 

 Ibis, 1881, p. 49 j Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 430 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 192. 



Description. Male and female. General colour of the upper plumage 

 speckled grey ; a broad irregular line from the crown down the back 

 black ; scapulars irregularly banded with black ; the tail with four narrow 

 irregular black bands ; the quills with a series of buff spots on both webs, 



* Cf. Wlinrton, Ibis, 1879, p. 463. 



