The birch coppice so favoured by nightingales was that way; and, by the bye, the wrynecks were almost equally numerous; and the question has occurred to me whether these birds are companions, in a sense, of the nightingale, having noticed them in other places to be much together.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
Foremost were borne, on the wrists of the actors, the birds especially sacred to the goddess-doves and sparrows, wrynecks and swallows; and a pair of gigantic Indian tortoises, each ridden by a lovely nymph, showed that Orestes had not forgotten one wish, at least, of his intended bride.
"Hypatia or, New Foes with an Old Face"
Charles Kingsley