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is a great favorite with natives, and the hill men bring down 
numbers for sale on bazar days. 
148.—Paleornis torquatus,* Bodd. The Rose- 
ringed Parroquet. 
Permanent resident. Found all over the district, though 
scarcer in the Satpuras than in the plains. It breeds in January 
and February. 
149.—Paleornis purpureus,* P. LZ. §. Mill. The 
Western Rose-headed Parroquet. 
Permanent resident. Common all over the plains (wherever 
there are mango groves) in the rains. In the cold weather 
found mainly in the villages near the foot of the Satpuras, 
and then in very large flocks. These it deserts about Feb- 
ruary, and while a few breed about the ghats in Pimpalnir, the 
rest seem all to betake’ themselves to the glens of the Satpuras, 
generally, not high up. It is in February the commonest 
bird in the low Satpuras, and I have found as many as a dozen 
nests in a day’s walk through the hills. 
160.—Picus mahrattensis,* Lath. The Yellow- 
fronted Woodpecker. | 
Permanent resident; very common. Breeds in February, 
principally in the low khair jungle along the base of the 
Satpuras. The nest-holes I generally found quite low down, 
frequently within two or three feet of the ground. It also 
breeds in the plains. I never noticed this Woodpecker in the 
Akrani, nor I think on any of the higher peaks of the Satpuras. 
164.—Yungipicus nanus,* Vig. The Indian Pigmy 
Woodpecker. 
This must be rare as I only got one specimen ona mango 
tree above my camp at Taloda in December 1879. 
167.—Chrysocolaptes festivus,* Bodd. The Black- 
backed Woodpecker. 
Permanent resident. Moderately common all through the 
Satpuras, Western Nandurbar, and the Pimpalnir Ghats, 
but does not seem, like aurantius, to come down to the 
plains. It breeds very early in November, December, 
and January. The first pair I noticed were at Taloda in 
December 1879. I shot the male not noticing they had 
just finished excavating a hole. Next year I found a pair 
of birds still there. They had made at least five or six new 
nest-holes in rotten stumps but had not laid. I had all the 
