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WRYNECK. 
numbers, insectivorous and arboreal, but not 
possessing all the structure for a climbing life, or 
strength to dig out the burrowing larvce of 
insects. It has been placed among the sub-family 
of the Barbets or Bucconinte , and is the only 
representation of it which we have in the British, 
or, indeed, in the European Fauna. 
Yunx, Linn. — Generic characters. — Bill 
straight, nearly round, dilated at the base - r 
tongue long ; feet zygodactyle, exterior toes 
nearly equal in length, and to the tarsus ; 
wings with the first quill very minute, third 
longest, second and fourth nearly equal ; tail 
ample, soft, very slightly rounded. 
Type. — Y. torquilla. 
Note. — Europe, Asia. 
Yunx torquilla, Wryneck. — Yunx tor- 
quilla , Will. Linn. fyc . — Wryneck of British 
authors. — This chaste and delicately marked bird 
is a beautiful example of the pleasing effects of 
the blending of a few simple colours ; gray, brown, 
with shades of yellowish white, forming nearly the 
only tints, but so distributed as to produce a whole 
which gives satisfaction to every observer. The 
Wryneck is a summer visiter to our island, arriving 
about the same period with most of our other 
migratory birds. It, however, does not extend 
in any numbers, or with regularity, to the northern 
or the midland counties of England ; but south- 
