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BIRD S. [Clafs II. 
GENUS VI. The Wryneck. 
SPECIES I. The Wryneck. Plate F. 
The wryneck. IVil. orn. 1 38. 
Ran fyn. av. 44. 
Torquilla. Brijfon av. 4. 4. Tab. 1. 
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Fig. 1. 
A T U R E, by the elegance of its 
pencilling the colors of this bird, 
hath made ample amends for their 
want of fplendor. Its plumage is marked with 
the plained kinds. A lift of black and ferrugin¬ 
ous ftrokes divides the top of the head and back. 
The {ides of the head and neck are afh colored 
beautifully traverfed with fine lines of black and 
reddifh brown. The quil feathers are dufky, but 
each web is marked with ruft colored ipots. The 
chin and bread are of a light yellowilh brown, 
adorned with fharp painted bars of black. The 
tail confifts of ten feathers, broad at their ends 
and weak j of a pale afh color, powdered with 
black and red, and marked with four equidiftant 
bars of black. The tongue is long and cylin- 
dric ; for the fame ufe as that of the woodpecker. 
The toes are alfo difpofed the fame way. The bill 
The emmet hunter. Charlton ex. 93. 
Jynx torquilla. Fin. fyft. 112. 
Jynx. Gefner av. 573 - 
is fhort, weak and a little arcuate. T he lrides are 
of a yellowifh hazel. 
The wryneck we believe to be a bird of paf- 
fage , appearing here in the fpring before the cuc¬ 
koo. The Weljb confider it as the forerunner 
or fervant of that bird, and call it Gwasy gog , 
or the cuckoo’s attendant : the Swedes regard it 
in the fame light *. The food of thefe birds 
is the fame with that of the woodpecker. Its 
weight is one ounce and a quarter : the length 
feven inches} the breadth eleven. It takes its 
name from a manner it has of turning its head 
back to the fhouiders 5 efpecially when terrified : 
it has alfo the faculty of eredfing the feathers of 
the head like thofe of the jay. It lays five white 
em*s, with fo thin a fhell that the yolk may be 
feen through it. 
* Jynx hieme non apparet, vere autem remigrans, cuculi, poll quatu- 
ordecein dies, adventum ruricolis annuntiat. Amcen. acad. 4. 584. 
GENUS VIL The Cuckoo. 
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P EG I E S I. The Cuckoo, Plate G. The Male. 
JVil. orn . 97. 
Rail fyn.av. 23. 
Brijfon av. 105. 
H I S fingular bird appears in our coun¬ 
try early in the fpring, and makes 
the fhorteft ftay with us of any bird 
of paffage \ it is compelled here, as Mr. 
Plate G. 1. The Female. 
Cuculus canorus. Lin. fyft. no. 
Cuculus. Gefner av. 362. 
Stillingfleet obferves, by that conftitution of 
the air which caufes the fig-tree to put forth 
its fruit j% From the coincidence of the firft 
appearance of the {ummer birds of paflage* and 
the 
•f- Calendar of Flora, vide Preface throughout. 
