60 BIRDS' NESTS. 



WRYNECK. Yunx Torquilla. 

 THIS beautifully marked bird, popularly 

 known as the Cuckoo's Mate, because it ap- 

 pears and departs about the same period with 

 that bird, is closely allied with the wood- 

 peckers in structure, and deposits its eggs in 

 similar places, constructing no nest, though it 

 does not object to make use of one which has 

 been deserted by another bird. The eggs are 

 from six to nine or ten in number, white, 

 smooth, and shining, resembling, in every 

 respect, those of the lesser spotted wood- 

 pecker. The wryneck, after it has once se- 

 lected a hole for its eggs, becomes so attached 

 to it, that no trifling annoyance will drive it 

 away, and has been even known to haunt 

 the same tree after its eggs have been several 

 times removed. 



HEN-HARRIER. Circus cyancus. 



THE Hen-Harrier is a bird of by no means 

 common occurrence, and is generally found in 



