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ORD. II. GENUS VIII. WRYNECK. 
Bitt, weak, flender, pointed. 
Nosrrits, large, oval, and near the ridge of the bill. 
Toncve, very long, flender, cylindric, and hard at the point, 
‘Tozs, two forwards, two backwards. 
Tati, confifting of ten even and foft feathers. 
SPECIES L WRYNECK. 
PE St. 
Jynx torquilla. Lin. Syf. I. p. 172. 
Le Torcol. Brif. Orn. IV. p. 4. 
This bird is about feven inches in length and eleven in breadth, and its co- 
jours, though wholly void of {plendour, are fo elegantly variegated as to give it 
a confiderable degree of beauty. The bill is of a pale lead colour: eyes hazel: 
a lift of black and ruft coloured ftrokes divides the top of the head and back : 
the fides of the head and neck are afh coloured; chin and breaft of a light 
yellowith brown; and belly nearly white; all of them beautifully croffed with 
dafhes of dark brown: the quill feathers are of a rufty yellow, {potted with 
black: the fhoulders afh coloured, and wing coverts brown, marked with black, 
white, and dark brown fpots: the tail ath coloured, croffed with broad bars of 
light brown edged with black. 
The wryneck takes its name from a habit of turning the head back to the 
fhoulders, particularly when terrified. It builds ih the hollows of trees, and 
fometimes rears nine young ones. Thefe will hifs like fo many fnakes, which 
often faves the neft from being robbed. The egg, for which fee Pl. XI, Fig 4, 
has fo thin a fhell, that the yelk may be feen through it. 

