. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . her hand, thetail has no resemblance to that of the Woodpeckers. In truth,the genus stands on the limits of the two groups, and formstheir connecting link. The common or European species isthe only one with which I am acquainted, so that the abovegeneric character has been taken from it exclusively. It ap-pears that there is only another specie
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . her hand, thetail has no resemblance to that of the Woodpeckers. In truth,the genus stands on the limits of the two groups, and formstheir connecting link. The common or European species isthe only one with which I am acquainted, so that the abovegeneric character has been taken from it exclusively. It ap-pears that there is only another species as yet known, which isa native of Southern Africa, and has been named Yunx pecto-ralis by Mr Vigors. M. Temminck states that the first quill is a little less longthan the second, which is the longest; Mr Selby that thefirst feather is a little shorter than the second, which is thelongest in the wing ; and Mr Jenyns that the first quill is ^a little shorter than the second, which is longest. The first quill I find extremely short, being about a sixth only of thelength of the second, which is very slightly shorter than the third. lOU YUNX TORQUILLA. THE WRYNECK. EMMET HUNTER. LONG-TONGUE. CUCKOOS MAID OR MATE. TURKEY-BIRD. Fig. 207. Yiinx Toniuilla. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 172- Yunx Torquilla. Lath Ind. Orn. I. 223. Wryneck. Mont. Orn. Diet. Torcol ordinaii-e. Yunx Torquilla. Temni. Man. dOrn. L 403. Wryneck. Yunx Torquilla. Selb. Illustr. I. 381. Yunx Torquilla. Wryneck. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 152. Plumage of the upper parts hrownish-grey^ spotted, undulated,and dotted tcith hlackish-hroini; a longitudinal hand of darkbrown on the hind-neck ; the fore-neck and sides greyish-yellow,with transverse narrow bars of hrownish-hlack. Male.—The Wryneck is one of the most beautiful of ournative birds, being of an elegant form, and having its colours,which however are not brilliant, disposed in a curiously intri-cate manner. As it is the only species of the genus tha
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