494 PICIDÆ.
is rather less pure and bright. The young are more regularly
barred beneath, and have the irides darker.
The vignette represents the head of the Wryneck. Of
the two small thread-like muscles seen at the throat on the
side of the windpipe, one, with its fellow on the other side
of the neck, belongs to the trachea itself; the other assists
in drawing the tongue back after it has been thrust forward.
[J am not responsible for anything that may folloiv by
another Editor.
A l f r e d N ew t o n .^
25 May, 1882.
END OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
