CATALOGUE. 
679 
ridge ; orbitar skin plumbeous ; weight \ of an ounce. Sexes alike. 
Inhabits the forests of the lower regions of Nepal." — (Hodgson.) 
" Common in the hill-ranges of Nepal, Sikim, Assam, Sylhet, and 
Arracan, being generally seen hopping from twig to twig of bushes 
or low branches of trees, though occasionally climbing like an ordinary- 
Woodpecker. ' '— (Bly th .) 
Subfam. III. YUNCINA. 
Genus Yunx, Linn., S. (1748). 
ToEQTJiLLA, Srisson, Orn. lY.p. 3 (1760). 
Jynx, Idnn., Fauna Suec. (1746). 
996. YUNX TOBQUILLA, Linn. 
Tunx torquilla, Linn., S. i\r. I. p. 172. Lath., Hist, of 
B. 111. p. 332. Gould, B. of Eur. t. 233. McClell, 
P. Z. S. (1839), p. 165. Jerdon, Madras Journ. 
XI. p. 217. a. B. GroAj, Gen. of B. 11. p. 448 ; 
List of Brit. B. in Brit, Mus. p. 125. BlytJi, J. A. S. 
Beng. XVI. p. 467 ; Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 65. 
Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 112. Tgtler, Ann. JV. H. 
'Xlll.p. 367. 
Jynx torquilla, Linn., Fauna Suec. p. 34. 
The Wryneck, BewicJc. 
Gaedaij Etengtha, Hind., F. (B.) Hamilton. 
a. Calcutta. From the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
h. c. d. Nepal. (No. 894, Hodgs. Cat.) Presented by 
B. H. Hodgson, Esq., 1853. 
e. Drawing. Assam. From McClelland's Collection. 
/. Drawing. From F. (B.) Hamilton^'s Collection. 
" Common in many parts of India. I have observed these birds in 
tolerable abundance upon some of the partially-cultivated alluvial 
islands up the river Hoogly, and have shot it near Midnapore, in the 
act of running up the perpendicular bole of a tree, in the manner of 
a Woodpecker. It is very seldom that the Wryneck is seen to 
climb ; but in England I once winged one of these birds, and placing 
it on the trunk of a tree, it immediately ascended with such celerity 
