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base of upper bill to end of moustache, which is black in both sexes ; but I 

 have seen male specimens from Morocco with the moustache red. 



Male. Crown and nape red. 



Female. Crown grey, striped with black ; nape only red. Length 12 

 inches. 



158. Gecinus canus, Gmelin. The Grey-headed Green 

 Woodpecker. 



I have never met with this species in Andalucia ; but there 

 was a specimen in an Institute at Seville, stated to have been 

 obtained in the neighbourhood. Lord Lilford records them from 

 the vicinity of Madrid, and Arevalo from Valencia. 



The note of this Green Woodpecker is quite distinct from that 

 of G. viridis. 



Nape and head grey. Below uniform ; moustache black "in both sexes. 



Male. Fore crown red. 



Female. Crown grey. Length 8 inches. 



Subfamily lYNGIN^E. Nostrils partly covered by a membrane. 



159. lynx torquilla, Linnseus. The Wryneck. 



Spanish. Torcecuello, Hormiguero, Lililo. 



"Rather scarce and seen only in pairs near Tangier during 

 passage, crossing the Straits in March and April, returning 

 in August and September, but occasionally observed up to 

 December." Favier. 



Mr. Meade- Waldo saw one near Tangier at the end of January, 

 1892. 



On the Spanish side of the Straits the Wryneck is occasionally 

 heard in March, April, and September ; probably their line of 

 migration lies further to the east. 



General colour greyish brown, vermiculated with blackish ; below dull 

 white ; throat and breast tinged with buff and crossed with blackish bars. 

 Tail soft and rounded, with six blackish bars ; the outer feather on each 

 side so extremely short as to give the appearance of only ten feathers. 

 Length 7 inches. 



