IHE WRYNECKS. 
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and allowed him to observe their ways at a short 
ance from his window. 
T'Vi c 
® food of the present species consists mainly of insects, 
othe by splitting off the bark of the trees, but, like 
.oodpeckers, it will also feed on fruit and berries, 
antsrv oever seems to descend to the ground to feed on 
bran n Green Woodpecker. The drumming on a small 
is off supposed to be a call-note between the sexes, 
ton heard in the spring. 
( 3 g^°^*~brone. A neatly made hole is drilled into a dead or 
bista^^*^ branch by the birds themselves, and there at the 
a g " °f six or eight inches downwards, the eggs are laid in 
oause^l f'^^^’^ber, on the chips of wood or the powdered dust 
tbe p' excavation. Such a nest-hole can be seen in 
. of the British Museum, and is the identical 
m 
1 ■ /I Gould in his “Birds of Great Britain.' 
^ ird often takes advantage of any hole which it may find 
wilir^,. tree and may be found nesting in a pollard 
or an ancient fruit-tree. 
^be ®^Sbt in number. They are laid about 
diai-n ^ i^uy, and are pure ivory-white. Axis o'8-o'q ; 
"■> o'5S-o-7. f j y , 
'''WRYNECKS. SUB-FAMILY lYNGIN^.. 
"'ith a constitute a little group of Woodpeckers, 
'nottleci P./'Pbnnaged tail, rather long, and variegated and 
body, mi ®| . general colour of the upper surface of the 
oasal anert^ ^ shorter than the head, and the 
contrary ooncealed by bristly ])lumes, but, on the 
'^ei'nbrane'* und partially hidden by an overhanging 
? ^Voodpp ^ zygodactyle and resemble those of 
exactly respect, and the long extensile tongue 
b'amily other members of the 
T^'s nanle^?^'^^^ ■ represented by a single genus lynx. 
.History, p, "’laffen “ Yunx" in most works on Natural 
derived fiP Henry Wharton has pointed out, the name 
>om ivf(o, “to cry out” : hence lynx. 
