JYNX TORQUILLA. 
WRYNECK, 
Generic Character. 
Bill round and fomewhat incurvated. 
Noflrils bare. 
Tongue long, (lender, cylindrical, and terminated with 
an horny fubftance. 
Toes two forward and two backward. 
Tail compofed of t^n fle^^ible feathers. 
Synonyms. 
Jynx Tor^uilla. Lin. Syjl, i. p, 172. Ind, Orn. 
1. p. 223. 1. 
Wryneck. Br. Zool 1. 83. Ih, foL 80. tab. F. G. 
Ar5l, Zool. 2. p. 267. i5. Lath, Syn. 
2. /. 548. iah. 24. Ih.fupt.p. 103. 
Mont. Orn. DW. Vol. 2. Bev;ick'^ 
Br. Birdsy Ft. 1. p. 136. 
TThE length of this bird is feven inches, breadth about 
eleven, it weighs three quarters of an ounce ; bill three-fourths 
of an inch long 5 irides light blood colour; feathers on the 
crown of the head ere<5lable ; toes and claws very ftropg, 
Pol ours alike in both fexes, « 
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