143 



WRYNECK. 

 (Yunx Torquilla.) 



Y. grisea fusco nigricanteque varia ; abdomine rufescente-albo ma- 

 culis nigricantibus ; rectricibus maculis striis Jasciisque nigris 

 undulatis. 



Grey Wryneck, varied with black and fuscous ; abdomen of a 



rufescent white, with blackish spots ; tail-feathers spotted and 



barred with undulated black striae. 

 Yunx Torquilla. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 1/2. — Faun. Suec. Qj. 1. 



9?. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 423. — Ger. Orn. 2. 52. 186.— Bris. 



4. 4. t. \.f. 1. — Rait. Syn. 44. 8. — Will. 95. 22. — Lath.Ind. 



Orn. 1. 223. 1. 



Le Torcol. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 84. 3.— Buff. PI. Enl. 698. 

 Wryneck. Brit. Zool. 1. 83.— Arct. Zool. 2. 26/. B. — Levoin, 



Br. Birds. 2. 43. — Id. 8. 2. [ovum.) — Lath. Syn. 2. 548. 24. 



— Lath. Sup. 103. — Don. Brit. Birds. 4. 83. — Montague. Brit. 



Birds. 2. — Bemck. Brit. Birds. 1. 111. 



The length of this beautiful bird is about seven 

 inches ; the beak is three quarters of an inch long, 

 nearly straight, and sharp pointed ; tongue cylin- 

 dric, two inches and a quarter in length : irides 

 light hazel, inclining to yellow: the upper part of 

 the head, neck, back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 are ash-colour, marked with numerous fine dusky 

 undulated transverse lines ; from the crown of the 

 head a black list runs half way down the back, 

 disposed in four indistinct lines: wing-coverts like 

 the back, but inclining to rufous, and spotted with 

 grey : greater quills dusky, marked with quadran- 

 gular rust-coloured spots on the exterior webs : 



