Descriptive Lid of the Common Birds 



wing visible only during flight. Chin and 

 throat are white, breast orange-yellow. There 

 is a large crimson patch under the tail. 



Not found in N.W. F. P., Punjab, Eastern 

 Bengal, Assam, or Burma. It is nowhere 

 abundant, but fairly common in Madras. 

 (Illus. B. D., p. io8 ; also I. F., p. 256.) 



The Woodpeckers, no and in 



A general description of the woodpeckers is 

 scarcely necessary. They feed exclusively on 

 insects, which they pick off the trunks of trees, 

 tapping the same with their chisel-like beak to 

 drive their quarry from its lair. They are 

 very skilled climbers, moving up and down the 

 tree trunk in a series of jerks ; the head is al- 

 ways pointing upwards. Their powers of 

 flight are not great, they progress through the 

 air in a series of undulations, uttering their 

 peculiar harsh cries. They excavate their 

 nests in the trunks of trees. A great many 

 woodpeckers exist in India, but only two 

 species are widely distributed. 



no. Liopicus mahrattensis : The Yellow- 

 fronted Pied Woodpecker. (F. 972), (J. 160), 



(-11.) 



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