On the Birds of Lucknow. 49 



IV. — A List of the Birds of Lucknow. By William Jesse, 

 M.A., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. (Member of the Bombay Natural 

 History Society). — Part III. 



[Continued from ' The Ibis,' 1902, p. 566.] 



No. 972. Liopicus mahrattensis. Yellow -fronted Pied 

 Woodpecker. 



Kutpurwa* [H.]. Small-caste Woodpecker [Martiniere 

 boys] . 



A fairly common and permanent resident, frequenting the 

 better-wooded parts of the district. Reid wrote : — " It gene- 

 rally moves about in pairs, and breeds from February to 

 April in holes, artificially made, in decayed trees. I have 

 frequently found its nest, but could never get at the eggs." 

 The only specimen that I possess was one of a clutch of three 

 taken by L. Jackson and two companions from a hole in the 

 rotten branch of a babool-tree. I was shown the nest about an 

 hour after the eggs had been taken. It was a small tunnel in 

 a horizontal branch, with a neat circular opening on the lower 

 side. The egg is glossy white, and measures "85" x '67". 



No. 976. Iyngipicus hardwickii. Indian Pigmy Wood- 

 pecker. 



A fairly common and permanent resident. Reid wrote : — 

 " I have met with it singly, in pairs, and often in small 

 parties, generally in mango-groves. It keeps well to the 

 tops of trees, where it may be seen flying from branch to 

 branch, and even hopping about like a Sparrow from bough 

 to bough. 



" I found a nest of this species with two fresh eggs on the 

 24th of March. The nest was placed about eight feet from 

 the ground, in a horizontal and internally decayed (but not 

 hollow) bough of a mango-tree in a neglected garden in 

 the native city of Lucknow. The aperture, on the under 

 side of the bough, was about seven-eighths of an inch in 

 diameter, and gradually widened out to the egg-cavity about 

 ten inches away towards the trunk of the tree. The eggs 

 * Applied to all Woodpeckei's and Barbete. 



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