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YUNX. 
form of an inverted cone, quite solid for about two inches, while the 
cavity of the nest, which is about two inches deep, only extends to half 
the perpendicular dimensions. The interior lining- is frequently, in the 
nests of this species, woven with considerable art. Grahame’s descrip- 
tion is excellent, 
“Up from the ford, a little bank there w^s, 
With alder-copse and willow over grown, 
Now worn away by mining winter floods; 
There, at a bramble root sunk in the grass. 
The hidden prize of withered field straws formed, 
Well lined with many a coil of hair and moss. 
And in it laid five red-’veined eggs, I found.”* * 
The eggs differ somewhat in colour and size ; some are nearly white, 
others have a purplish hue, but are more or less marked with hair-like 
streaks, terminating with a roundish speck ; the number from three to 
five, but usually four ; their weight from thirty to forty-seven grains. 
YELLOW-LEGGED GULL. — A name for the Herring Gull. 
YELLOW7LEGGED SANDPIPER. — A name for the Young- 
Ruff. 
YELLOW PLOVER. — A name for the Golden Plover. 
YELLOW WAGTAIL. — A name for the Winter Wagtail. 
YELLOW W^REN. — A name for the Haybird. 
YELLOW YOLDRIN. — A name for the Yellow Hammer. 
YUNX (Linnjeus.) — * Wryneck, a genus of birds thus charac- 
terised. Bill short, straight, conical, and depressed; the ridge rounded; 
mandibles of equal length, sharp, and not notched ; nostrils at the 
sides of the base, naked and partly closed by a membrane ; tongue 
long, worm-shaped, and armed at the point with a horny substance; 
feet with two toes before, and two behind, the fore ones joined at 
their base ; tail with ten soft and flexible feathers ; wings of middle 
length, the first quill shorter than the second, which is the longest in 
the wing.* 
* Birds of Scotland, p. 28, Architecture of Birds. Chap, on Weaver Birds, p. 254. 
