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THE WRYNECK. 



lynx torquilla L. 



This species apparently arrived on the south-east and south 

 coasts as far west as Hampshire, though the record from 

 Somerset on May the 7th and a straggler in the Scilly Isles on 

 the following day may point to an immigration further west. 

 One bird was reported in Surrey on the 12th of March, and 

 stragglers occurred in Hampshire, Berkshire, Buckingham- 

 shire, Hertfordshire, Essex and Worcester l)etween that 

 date and the 30th. 



There were no lighthouse records of the Wryneck and the 

 notes of inland observers did not afford much assistance in 

 tracing its movements. Its immigrations would appear to 

 have been somewhat prolonged, and probably consisted of the 

 arrival of small scattered parties, which would account to a 

 great extent for the unsatisfactory nature of the records. 

 Omitting the early stragglers, immigration seems to have 

 commenced in earnest about the second week in April 

 and to have continued for a whole month. Up to the end 

 of the third week in April, Wrynecks (with the exception 

 of a single bird seen in Worcester on the 28th of March) 

 were confined to the south and east of a line drawn from 

 Somerset to Leicester. After the 23rd of April they ex- 

 tended their range slightly, the northern limit being finally 

 marked by Yorkshire and the western by Hereford and 

 Somerset. 



No information was received as to the nesting of this 

 bird. 



