prcus. 1 1 3 



tail feathers clart green^ their inner webs and under surface yellowish- 

 the two centre feathers dark green at their base, bluish for the 

 remaining' two-thirds, and tipped yellowish; all black shafted ; under 

 wing-coverts greenish yellow. The female is entirely green, and wants 

 the rose collar; bill coral red; irides pale yellow; feet cinereous. 



Length. — ]5"5 to 16"5 inches, wing 6*5 to 7, tail 9"5, bill at gape 1. 



Hah. — Throughout India, part of Burmah, Ceylon, Punjab and Sind ; 

 extends to the lower Himalayas, Upper Pegu, and Nepaul. Occurs 

 abundantly in the Concan and Deccan, Kutch, Kattiawar, Jodhpore, 

 and N. Guzerat. Breeds throughout India in colonies. Eggs pure 

 white, 4 in number. 



Family, PICIDiE,— Woodpeckers. 

 Bill long, straight, sharp and compressed at the tip. 



Sub -Family, PICIN^,— (?. II. Gr. 



Bill truncated at tip; sides of upper mandible with a distinct ridge. 

 Gen. PicUS. — L. et BreJim. 



Height and breadth of bill equal; nostrils hidden by bristles ; fourth 

 quill of wing longest ; tail long, rounded. 



Picas SCindianus, Gould.; Horsf. mid Moovp., Gat. Mils. E. I. G.ii. 

 p. 671 ; Jrrd. B. of India, i. p. 273, No. 158; Ilnme, Ibis. 1870, p. 629; 

 Jerd. Ibis. 1872, p. 7; Hume, Str. F. i. ]). 170; Lahore to Yarhand, 

 pi. ii. ; Murrai/,IldbJi., ZooL, >^-c.. Sind, p. 130. — The Sind Pied Wood- 

 pecker. 



Ad.uH Male. — Forehead, lores, sides of the head, ear-coverts, super- 

 cilia and breast white, tinged butiy on the forehead, or a soiled white ; 

 a very narrow dark line above the supercilia ; a dark stripe from the 

 lower mandible extending down each side of the throat, projecting* 

 to the lower side of the breast, and joining the back at the shoulder; 

 ui'own of the head mixed crimson and black ; back, rump, upper tail- 

 coverts and centre tail feathers glossy black, with a dusky tinge ; 

 scapulars and the adjacent wing-coverts white, the remainder of the 

 wing-coverts black with a few Avhite spots; quills brownish black, 

 spotted with white on botli webs forming white wing bars, of which 

 there are four on the primaries and three on the secondaries ; lateral 

 tail feathers black, barred and- tipped with white; lower parts white, 

 with a few dusky streaks on the flanks and abdomen; middle of abdo- 

 men and lower tail-coverts crimson ; bill blackish above, bluish grey 

 below, 1'25 inch long ; legs dusky; irides dull crimson. 



Length. — 8'5 to 8'75 inches, wing 4'9 to 5, tail 3. The Adult Female 

 has the crown black and is smaller than the male. 



Hah. — Sind, Beloochistan, South Afghanistan, Punjab, in the Salt 

 Range, at Attock, Rawulpindee, Peshawur, and Cashmere. In Sind it 

 is a resident and breeds in April, 

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