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the occiput. Below there is more difference. In the present 

 species the black malar band is much broader, and continued to 

 the side of the breast, the feathers of the breast between the ends 

 of the black bands are tipped with red ; the chin, throat, and 

 breast are fulvous brown ; abdomen and under tail-coverts crimson ; 

 edge of wing, under wing-coverts, and axillaries white. 



Bill dark plumbeous (G.-A.}. Length 8; tail 3-4; wing 5; 

 tarsus "95 ; bill from gape 1*3. 



Distribution. Throughout China ; two male specimens were ob- 

 tained by Godwin- Austen at G-onglong in the Manipur hills. This 

 Woodpecker appears not to have been observed elsewhere within 

 Indian limits. 



963. Dendrocopus sindianus. The Sind Pied Woodpecker. 



Picus assimilis, Natt., Bonap. Consp. Valuer. Zygod. p. 8 (1854 ; 



descr. nulla). 

 Picus scindeanus, Gould, Horsf. fy M. Cat. ii. p. 671 (1856-58) ; 



Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 273 ; Hume, Ibis, 1870, p. 529 ; Jerdon, Ibis, 1872, 



p. 7 ; Hume $ Henders. Lah. to Yark. p. 179, pi. ii ; Hume, S. F. i, 



p. 170 ; Barnes, S. F. ix, pp. 215, 453 ; Murray, Vert. Zool Sind, 



p. 113 ; St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 157. 

 Picus eindianus, Blanf. East. Pers. ii, p. 132 ; Hume, Cat. no. 158 ; 



Doig, S. F. viii, p. 370; ix, p. 279; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1882, p. 102 ; 



Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 112 ; Oates in Humes N. 8f E. 2nd ed. ii, 



p. 303. 

 Dendrocopus scindeanus, Hargitt, Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 227. 



Coloration. Male. Nasal plumes white with black tips ; forehead 

 white, sometimes buff or light brown ; crown and occiput crimson ; 

 a malar band from lower mandible down the neck, back of neck, 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts black ; lores, supercilia, sides 

 of head and neck, scapulars and innermost median and greater 

 wing-coverts, together with the lower parts from the chin to the 

 abdomen, under wing-coverts and axillaries, white ; lower abdomen, 

 vent, and under tail-coverts crimson. Wings and tail similar to 

 those of D. Tiimalayensis, except that the wing-feathers are brown, 

 that the white spots on both webs are much larger, and the unspotted 

 tips of the primaries shorter. In some specimens too the three 

 middle pairs of tail-feathers are entirely black. The wing is 

 differently shaped, being shorter and rounder. 



In the female the crown and occiput are black. 



Bill bluish plumbeous ; irides dark maroon ; legs and feet 

 greyish plumbeous (Butler) irides crimson (Barnes). 



Length 8*5 ; tail 3*1 ; wing 4'5 ; tarsus *8 ; bill from gape I'l. 

 Females slightly smaller, and with a somewhat shorter bill. 



Distribution. Throughout Sind, Baluchistan, and the Western 

 Punjab as far north as Peshawar, Murree, and Sirsa, and westwards 

 to Bampur in S.E. Persia. St. John obtained specimens, now in 

 the British Museum, in the Khwaja Amran range north-west of 

 Quetta. 



