WRYNECK. 13 



eyes down to the sides of the neck extends a brown band, 

 also marked with black waved lines, over which runs a 

 whitish band commencing from the beak and running over 

 the eye. The cheeks and throat are yellow ; the chin is 

 white ; the breast and belly are yellowish white, and the 

 under tail-coverts are pale rusty yellow, the tail-feathers are 

 pale ash-coloured, transversely barred with five black bands, 

 which are shaded with brown above and with white below ; 

 but two of these bars are hidden by the upper tail-coverts. 



The male and female Wrynecks are so much alike, that 

 unless a pair of these birds can be procured to compare to- 

 gether they can scarcely be properly distinguished. The 

 female is somewhat smaller than the male, and her colours 

 are less bright. The egg figured No 137 is that of the 

 Wryneck. 



