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Jynx

JYNX.

Bill and tongue much as in Woodpeckers, but tail soft not used as a support in climbing ; nest in holes in decayed trees ; eggs white.

Jynx torquilla torquilla (L.). IATRvNEcic. Fr. Torcol ; Ger. Wendehals ; Sweet. GOktika.

y Above grey brown, vermiculated, striped and spotted with deep brown and rufous ; beneath, throat and chest yellowish buff barred brown, abdomen white with dark brown arrow-shaped spots ; quills barred rufous. Bill dull brown. Legs and feet yellowish brown. Wing S5-92. Tarsus 19-21. Bill 12-13.

Breeds.—British Isles ; Continental Europe to about 64° in Scandinavia and Russia, south to Spain, N. Italy, Balkan

Peninsula and Caucasus ; also Asia Minor and W. Siberia. Migrates ; occurs on passage Greece, Egypt, and N.W. Africa. Winters tropical Africa and India, but a few in Mediterranean region.

J. torquilla tschusii Kleinschmidt. Darker and smaller than "torquilla." Wing 82-85. Tarsus 18.

Brecds.—Italy, Dalmatia, Sardinia, Corsica, also S.E. France (Arles). Apparently resident.

J. torquilla mauretanica Rothschild. Still darker and smaller. Wing 76-82.5 (H.), with but little rufous and abdomen less white and more coarsely spotted.

Resident.—N. Algeria.

brown and torquilla