. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . ,remained quite unmoved. Ultimately it slipped round thegable of the house, and flew towards the top of a neighbour-ing pine-tree, where it went out of sight. The Wryneck is a beautiful bird of an elegant form,about the size of a Sky-lark, and its colours are soft andvaried, like those of the Nightjar and Owl. In its habits,which are shy and retiring, it somewhat resembles the wood-peckers ; and, like those birds, it
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . ,remained quite unmoved. Ultimately it slipped round thegable of the house, and flew towards the top of a neighbour-ing pine-tree, where it went out of sight. The Wryneck is a beautiful bird of an elegant form,about the size of a Sky-lark, and its colours are soft andvaried, like those of the Nightjar and Owl. In its habits,which are shy and retiring, it somewhat resembles the wood-peckers ; and, like those birds, it searches the trunks andbranches of trees for insects. It is very fond of ants andtheir eggs, and is often seen on the ground about their tongue of the bird, which is covered with a glutinoussubstance, is used with great effect amongst ants eggs, forwhen it is protruded they adhere to it, and are thus rapidlyconveyed to the mouth. This species generally arrives inEngland about the first or second week of April, and onaccount of its usually preceding the Cuckoo by a few days,is called in some districts the Cuckoos Leader, the CuckoosMate, or the Cuckoos
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