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YUNX. 



form of an inverted cone, quite solid for about two inches, while the 

 cavity of the nest, which is about two inches deep, only extends to half 

 the perpendicular dimensions. The interior lining is frequently, in the 

 nests of this species, woven with considerable art. Grahame's descrip- 

 tion is excellent. 



" Up from the ford, a little bank there was, 

 With alder-copse and willow over grown, 

 Now worn away by mining winter floods ; 

 There, at a bramble root sunk in the grass, 

 The hidden prize of withered field straws formed, 

 Well lined with many a coil of hair and moss, 

 And in it laid five redeemed eggs, I found." 1 * 



The eggs differ somewhat in colour and size ; some are nearly white, 

 others have a purplish hue, but are more or less marked with hair-like 

 streaks, terminating with a roundish speck ; the number from three to 

 five, but usually four ; their weight from thirty to forty-seven grains. 



YELLOW-LEGGED GULL.— A name for the Herring Gull. 



YELLOW-LEGGED SANDPIPER.— A name for the Young 

 Ruff. 



YELLOW PLOVER.— A name for the Golden Plover. 



YELLOW WAGTAIL.— A name for the W 7 inter Wagtail. 



YELLOW W r REN. — A name for the Haybird. 



YELLOW YOLDRIN. — A name for the Yellow, Hammer. 



YUNX (Linn^us.) — * Wryneck, a genus of birds thus charac- 

 terised. Bill short, straight, conical, and depressed; the ridge rounded; 

 mandibles of equal length, sharp, and not notched ; nostrils at the 

 sides of the base, naked and partly closed by a membrane ; tongue 

 long, worm-shaped, and armed at the point with a horny substance; 

 feet with two toes before, and two behind, the fore ones joined at 

 their base ; tail with ten soft and flexible feathers ; wings of middle 

 length, the first quill shorter than the second, which is the longest in 

 the wing.* 



1 Birds of Scotland, p. 28. Architecture of Birds. Chap, on Weaver Birds, p. 254. 



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