120 YUNGIN^J. 



Deccan, where it replaces R aumntiu, from which it is only 

 doubtfully distinct. 



SUB-FAMILY, Yunginae. 



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, (lynx.) 



Similar to the sub-family, of which it is the only genus. 



Yunx (lynx) torquilla, Lin. 



188. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 303 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 



Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 459 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 



IX, p. 386; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 115; 



lynx 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, 078. 



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 1 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. 



