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WRYNECK. 
usually within a few days of the Cuckoo, accounts for its being termed, in certain districts, the Cuckoo’s 
mate. 
Eor breeding-purposes these birds resort to holes in trees, making use of those that are formed by accident 
or decay; at times they take up their quarters in the deserted domicile of the Woodpecker. I have never 
detected any materials brought in to form a cradle for the young, though I notice some writers mention the 
nest of this species. 
