WRYNECK. ' ■ ?^7. 



WRYNECK. Gen, Birds, XX. 



B, Wrynfck, Br, Zool. i. N° 83. — Latham, i. 548. 

 Jynx Torquilla Gjoktyta, Faun. Stiec. N" ^j. 

 Le Torcal, De Bitffon, vii. 84.—/'/, Enl, 698.— Lev. Mus. 



With a black and colored lift dividing lengthways the crown 



and back : upper part of the body elegantly pencilled with 



grey, black, white, and ferruginous : tail confifts of ten feathers, 



grey, fpeckled with, black, and marked equidiftant with four broad 



black bars. 



Extends over all Rujfia and Sibiria, and even to Kamtjchatka. Place, 



Found in Sweden., and as high as Urontheim, in Norway -, and probably 

 migrates as far as the Cuckoo. The Swedes call this bird Gjoktyta, or 

 the bird which explains the Cuckoo : probably for the fame reafon as 

 the PFelfi and EngliJJj ftyle it the Cuckoo's Man, as it feems itsattendr- 

 ant,, and to point out its aj-rivak 



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