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towards the small end, with the delicate shell characteristic of the 

 Picidae, pure white and fairly glossy. They are much smaller than 

 those figured by Mr. Hodgson, measuring only O77 by O61. 



Dendrocopus sindianus (Gould). The Sind Pied Woodpecker. 



Picus scindianus, Gould, Jerd. B. Ind. i, p. 273 ; Hume, Cat. 

 no. 158. 



Colonel E. A. Butler remarks of this Woodpecker : " Lays un- 

 doubtedly, I should say, in February and March, although I have 

 not yet taken the eggs. In January this year I observed a pair 

 boring a nest-hole in a large babool tree about 12 feet from the 

 ground. I left it for about a fortnight, and as the bird used to 

 appear at the hole then, whenever I passed the tree, 1 cut into it 

 on the 1st March, but there were no eggs, although the old bird 

 was on the nest. On the 28th April Mr. Doig found a nest in 

 the E. Xarra with young ones, and several birds that I shot and 

 dissected towards the end of May appeared to have finished 

 .breeding." 



Lieut. H. E. Barnes notes from Chamau in Afghanistan : " The 

 Sind Woodpecker is very common and breeds during April and 

 May. I have not succeeded in obtaining eggs, but I found a nest 

 containing three young birds on the 6th May one of which I 

 kept and have succeeded in rearing."' 



Mr. Scrope Doig writes : " Found a nest with two fresh eggs 

 on the 2nd April ; the eggs were laid in a hole in a tauiarisk-tree 

 situated about 4 feet from the ground ; the tree was close on the 

 bank of the Xarra, the hole facing the north ; there was no lining 

 to the nest, the depth of the hole being about 10 inches. 



" Found a nest on 24th June, containing young birds ; nest was 

 in a hole in a tamarisk-tree, about 5 feet from the ground.*' 



Dendrocopus macii (Vieill.). The Fulvous-breasted Pied 

 Woodpecker. 



Picus macei, Vieill., Jerd. B. Ind. i, p. 27 '2 ; Hume, Rough Draft 

 N. # E. no. 157. 



The Fulvous-breasted Pied Woodpecker breeds, I believe, during 

 March, April, and May, according to locality, throughout Eastern 

 Bengal, Assam, and the lower ranges of the Himalayas from the 

 Brahmapootra to the Cabool Elver. I have never found a nest 

 myself. 



Captain Hutton, writing from near Mussoorie, says : " On the 

 20th of April I found a nest of this bird at 5500 feet in a hole in 

 a large Andromeda ovalifolia^ the hole was bored in a rotten 

 branch by the bird, and the nest was nothing more than the chips 

 and fragments of the rotten wood collected at the bottom. It was 

 about 14 inches in depth. The eggs were three in number and 



