54* WRYNECK. 



Yunx torquilla, Lin. SyJ}. i. p. 172. 



■ ——,. Scof. ann. i. N° $o.—Georgi Ruffl 



Le Torcol, Brif. cm. iv. p. 4. pi. 1. f. i. 



1 -, Buf. cif. vii. p. 84. pi. 3. — PL enl. 698. 



Dreh-hals, Fri/ch. t. 38. — Wendhals, Kram. el. p. 336. 



Jynx five torquilla, Raii Syn. p. 44. A. 8. 



The Wryneck, Will orn. p. 138. t. 22. 



'- , Albin. i. pi. zi.— Br. Z00L N° 8$.} 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description npHOUGH the colours are very few in this bird,, nor at- all 

 gaudy, yet their being blended together in a moft beautiful 

 manner, gives it an elegant appearance. In fize it nearly equals a 

 Lark : the length is feven inches. The bill is three quarters of 

 an inch long, and of a pale lead-colour : irides hazel : the tongue 

 is long, in fhape like a worm when extended. — " Its plumage (fays 

 Mr. Pennant} is marked with the plaineft kinds : a lift of black 

 and ferruginous ftrokes divide the top of the head and the 

 back : the fides of the head and neck are afh-coloured, beautifully 

 trave.rfed with fine lines of black and reddifh brown : the quill 

 feathers are dufky, but each web is marked with ruft-coloured 

 fpots : the chin and breaft are of a light yellowiih brown, adorned 

 with fharp-pointed bars of black : the tail confifts of ten feathers^ 

 broad at their ends, and weak, of a pale alb-colour, powdered 

 with black and red, and marked with four equidiftant bars of 

 black." 

 i?EMALE. The female is paler in colour than the male. It builds in hol- 



low trees, making no neft, but laying the eggs, which are from 



eight. 



