Order III. SCAN SORES. 
Family III. Picid^. 
The seventh Subfamily, 
YUNCINiE, or Wrynecks, 
have the Bill short, straight, with the tip acute ; the Wings moderate and pointed ; the Tail moderate ; 
rounded, and composed of soft and flexible feathers ; the Tarsi short ; and the Toes moderate. 
Yunx Linn .* 
Bill short, straight, with the culmen slightly sloping to the tip, which is rather acute and the gonys 
of the lower mandible moderate, and advancing upwards; the nostrils basal, lateral, partly closed by a 
membrane, and hidden by the frontal plumes. Wings moderate pomted, wdh he ^ first gudl rath 
shorter than the second, which is the longest. Tail moderate, rounded, and composed of soft flextb 
feathers. Tarsi short, partly clothed with feathers, but mostly covered with broad scales. 7b« moderate, 
the two anterior ones united at the base by a membrane. 
The birds that compose this to fteTrinc^al pit of their food 
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their long extensile tongue, to whici c m not nossess sufficient power to support them weight while 
r ^ ** f i * ,» e gP . 
3. Y. cequatorialis Rupp. Mus. Senck. iii. 121., Ornith. Faun, 
von Nord-Ost. Afr. t. 37« 
1. Y. torquilla Linn. PI. enl. 698 . 
2. Y. pectoralis Vigors, Froc. Z. S. 1831. 93., Mag. de Zool. 
1835. Ois. t. 33. — Yunx ruficollis Licht. 
* Established by Linnteus in his Systema Natural (174,8). 
November , 1845. 
