PLATE LXXI. 
The Wry Neck 
Takes its name from its frequently twilling its neck almoft round. Is fuppofed to be a bird of 
palfage, as the firft of its appearance is in the fpring, and but a few days before the Cuckoo ; and 
continues with us only the fummer feafon. This bird is called the Cuckoo's attendant ; it is a bird 
of no fong, but has a loud fhriek ; which it repeats quick. It has a long round tongue, like that of 
a Wood-pecker, hard at the end. Its food are infefts, and ants in particular ; and, as Mr. Pennant 
obferves, by laying his tongue acrofs a path, in which ants are continually paffing, it is foon co- 
vered with them, when it draws it into its mouth ; and, by this means, fuppHes itfelf with great num- 
bers. The female differs not from the male in colour. They have alfo two claws behind, and two 
before, like the Wood-peckers, and much referable them in their flight, feeding, and building. 
Their neft is compofed of dried grafs, and is built in a hole of a tree : they lay white eggs, the (hell 
of which is fo thin and tranfparent, that the yolk may be feen through it. 
