112 PICINA. 
Genus, Picus, Lin. 
Bill moderate, compressed, with the culmen straight and sharp ; 
the lateral ridge distinct, midway between the culmen and 
margin, and joining the margin about its middle; gonys long, 
barely angulated; versatile toe longer than the anterior, 
Picus sindianus, Gould. 
158.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 273; Murray’s Verte- 
brate Zoology of Sind, p. 113. 
THE SIND PIED WOODPECKER. 
&. Length, 8°5 to 86; expanse, 14°5 to 15; wing, 45 to 46; 
tail, 3:1 to 3:2; bill, 1:25. 
?. Length, 8 to 85; expanse, 13 to 15; wing, 44 to 47; 
tail, 3 to ow. 
Bill blackish above, lighter beneath ; irides crimson; legs dusky. 
Adult male: forehead, lores, sides of the head, ear-coverts, 
supercilia and breast white, tinged buffy 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; crown 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 white spots; quills brownish-black, spotted with 
white on both 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 
abdomen and lower tail-coverts crimson. 
The female has the crown black. 
This Woodpecker occurs pretty generally throughout Sind, 
where it is a permanent resident, breeding during March and 
April. It does not occur in any other portion of the district. 
Picus mahrattensis, Lath. 
160.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 274; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 458 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 385; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 114; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 62. 
THE YELLOW-FRONTED WOODPECKER. 
Length, 75 to 7°75; expanse, 12°5; wing, 4 to 44; tail, 25, 
bill at front, 1. 
Bill slaty-plumbeous ; irides crimson ; legs cinereous. 
Plumage above, wings, and tail, black, banded with white; 
forehead and top of head pale yellow; occiput bright crimson 
in the male, yellow in the female; lores, around the eyes, ear- 
coverts, sides of neck behind the throat, and middle of the neck 
