THE COMMON WRYNECK. 
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that it is very common along the frontier between Thayetmyo and Tonghoo. 
Mr. Davison found it generally distributed over the better-wooded portions 
of Tenasserim^ and Capt. Bingham in the Thoungyeen valley. 
Mr. Blyth records it from Darjeeling ; but I do not know on what 
authority. 
This lovely Nightjar frequents hilly country where the forest is dense 
and the ground broken up by rivers and ravines. It comes out rather 
late in the evenings and at first flies at a great height. As the darkness 
deepens it descends and flies quite close to the ground. These birds 
associate in large flocks ; and Capt. Bingham made the discovery that 
during the day they roost in caves. Mr. Davison found an egg of this 
bird at Malewoon in January on the ground; it was cream-colour, 
marked with lilac-grey. 
Order III. PICI. 
Family PICID^E. 
Subfamily lYNGIN^.. 
Genus lYNX* 
420. lYNX TORQUILLA. 
THE COMMON WRYNECK. 
Yunx torquilla, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 172 ; Malh. Mon. Pic. ii. p. 289, pi. cxxi. fig. 4 ; 
Jerd. B. hid. i. p. 303 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 128 ; id. S. F. iii. p. 75 ; 
Dresser, Birds Eur. v. p. 103, pi. ; Wardlaiv Bamsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 458 ; David 
et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 55 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. yi. p. 149 Hume, S. F. viii. p. 88. 
lynx torquilla, Simxlev. Cons^o. Av. Pic. p. 107 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 78 ; Biddulph, 
Ibis, 1881, p. 49 Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 430 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 192. 
Description. — Male and female. General colour of the upper plumage 
speckled grey ; a broad irregular line from the crown down the back 
black ; scapulars irregularly banded with black ; the tail with four narrow 
irregular black bands ; the quills with a series of buff spots on both webs^ 
* C/. Wlmrton, Ibis, 1879,p. 453. 
