CAMPEPHILIN 2. bi G3 
and breast, white, a brown stripe commencing near the nape, 
down the sides of the neck and breast; breast and abdomen 
brown, with pale edges to the feathers; a patch of crimson on 
the centre of the abdomen continued to the vent. 
The Yellow-fronted Woodpecker occurs sparingly in Sind, 
but is common throughout the remaining portion of the district. 
It is a permanent resident breeding about March; it lays 
three transparent white eggs, at the bottom of a hole, pierced 
in a decayed branch of a tree; there is no nest, except a few 
chips that may have fallen in during the time the hole was being 
excavated. They measure 0°87 inches in length, by 0°68 in 
breadth. 
Genus, Yungipicus, Bonap. 
Of small size; plumage spotted, or banded black and white 
above; bill barely straight; lateral ridge near the culmen; 
wings long; tail, with the two central feathers, longest ; the 
outer feathers soft and rounded. 
Yungipicus nanus, Vg. 
164.—Yungipicus hardwickit, Jerd—Jerdon’s Birds of India, 
Vol, I, p. 278; Butler, Deccan ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 
385 ; Guzerat, Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 458. 
THE SOUTHERN PicMy WOODPECKER. 
Length, 5 to 5°25; expanse, 95; wing 3; tail, 1°5; tarsus, 0-4; 
bill at front, 0°4. | 
Bill plumbeous; orbital skin lake; irides pale yellow; legs 
plumbeous. 
Above brownish or sooty-brown, banded with white on the 
back ; head pale rufescent. or yellowish-brown, scarcely deepen- 
ing posteriorly ; beneath white, sullied on the abdomen, and 
with pale brown streaks throughout; a narrow white band 
from above the eye down the side of the neck; a pale brown 
band from beneath the eye, below the white band, and another 
faint line beginning on the sides of the neck and being gradu- 
ally lost in the markings of the breast. The male has a 
somewhat long and narrow orange streak, beginning consider- 
ably behind the eye. 
This Woodpecker occurs sparingly along the Sahyadri 
Range as far north as Khandalla; it also occurs in the forest to 
the, west of Belgaum, and at Mahableshwar, Savantvadi and 
Ratnagiri. With the exception of a doubtful specimen from 
Anadra near Mount Aboo, it has not been recorded from any 
other portion of the district. $ 
Sus-ramity, Campephiline. 
Bill strong, somewhat wide, nearly straight, or very slightly 
curving; lateral ridge near the culmen sometimes wanting ; 
gonys short; versatile toe about equal to the anterior, sometimes 
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