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The romance of natural history, second series

Note 40 — I. THE EXTINCT.

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Riabhog.—The "cuckoo's waiting-maid," a little bird, is still so called in the west of Ireland. In England the wryneck (Yunx torquilla) bears this office, and also in Wales, where Pennant says it is called Gwás y gog, which means the same thing.

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