458 PICID^E. 



p. 184; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 87; Oates, 7>. Br. Burm. iii. p. 37 ; Murray, 

 Vert. Zool. Sind. p. 1 14. Picus an rocri status, Tick., J. A. S. B. xxxii. p. 75. 

 Liopipo mahrattensis, Blyth, B. Burm. p. 78. The YELLOW-FRONTED PIED 

 WOODPECKER. 



Forehead and crown of head pale yellow ; occiput crimson in the male, 

 yellow in the female ; lores, ear coverts, round the eyes, sides of neck, chin, 

 throat and upper breast white ; a dusky line from the nape extending to the 

 sides of the breast ; back, wings, and tail black, banded with white; lower 

 breast and abdomen brown, with pale edges to the feathers j centre of abdo- 

 men and vent crimson ; under tail coverts whitish, marginally streaked dusky 

 brown. Bill bluish plumbeous, dark on the culmen and tip of both mandibles; 

 eyelids dark brown; irides deep red; legs and feet plumbeous. 



Length. 7-5 to 775 ; wing 4 to 4-5 ; tail 2-5 ; bill at front r I. 



Hal. Throughout India and Ceylon. Occurs in Sind, Punjab, N.-W. 

 Provinces, Kutch, Kattiawar, Rajputana (Jodhpore and Sambhur Lake), 

 North Guzerat and the Deccan. Has also been recorded from North Pegu. 

 Although nothing is on record of its nidification in Sind, it is not improbable 

 that it breeds in June and July, as young birds not fully fledged have been 

 collected in September. In other parts of the country it breeds from February 

 to April. Eggs glossy white. 



1078. PiCUS CanicapillUS, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv.p. 197; Malh., 

 Mon. Pic. I. p. 141 ; Sundev-, Consp., Av. Pic. p. 29; Gales, B. Br. Burm. 

 ii. p. 36. Yungipicus canicapillus, Wald., P. Z. S. 1866, p. 539; Hume, 

 Sir. F. iii. p. 59 ; Blyth, B. Burm. p. 78 ; Armstrong, Sir. F. iv. p. 309; 

 Hume, Sir. F. v. p. 25 ; id., viii. p. 87. lyngipicus canicapillus, Hargitt, 

 Ibis, 1882, p. 39. The BURMESE GREY-HEADED PIED WOODPECKER. 



Forehead and crown grey ; streak over the eye, nape, hind neck, patch on 

 the side of the neck and the lesser and median wing coverts black ; on each 

 side of the head a patch of bright scarlet ; a streak from the eye to the 

 occiput white; ear coverts brown; quills, back, rump and upper tail 

 coverts black, barred with white ; tail black, spotted with white ; plumage of 

 the under surface dull white, with longitudinal streaks of blackish or dusky 

 brown. The female wants the scarlet patches on the sides of the occiput. 

 Bill plumbeous ; irides hazel ; legs plumbeous. 



Length. 5-5 inches; tail r8; wing 3*2: tarsus 0*55 ; bill from gape 07. 



Hab. British Burmah, Cachar, Tipperah and Assam ; also the Malay Penin- 

 sula down to Singapore and Cochin-China. Oates records it from Pegu, 

 Tenasserim, Karenne and Arracan. Affects jungle of brushwood generally. 



1079. PiCUS pUmilUS (Hargitt}, Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 37. 

 lyngipicus pumilus, Hargitt, Ibis, 1881, p. 599; id., Ibis, 1882, p. 37. 

 HARGITT'S GREY-HEADED PIED WOODPECKER. 



