Descriptive List of the Common Birds 
wing visible only during flight. Chin and 
throat are white, breast orange-yellow. There 
is a large crimson patch under the tail. 
Not found in N.W. F. P., Punjab, Eastern 
Bengal, Assam, or Burma. It is nowhere 
abundant, but fairly common in Madras. 
(Illus. B. D., p. 108; also I. F., p. 256.) 
The Woodpeckers, 110 and 111 
A general description of the woodpeckers is 
scarcely necessary. ‘They feed exclusively on 
insects, which they pick off the trunks of ttees, 
tapping the same with their chisel-like beak to 
drive their quarry from its lair. They are 
very skilled climbers, moving up and down the 
tree trunk in a series of jerks; the head is al- 
ways pointing upwards. ‘Their powers of 
flight are not great, they progress through the 
air in a series of undulations, uttering their 
peculiar harsh cries. ‘They excavate their 
nests in the trunks of trees. A great many 
woodpeckers exist in India, but only two 
species are widely distributed. 
110. Liopicus mahrattensis: ‘The Yellow- 
fronted Pied Woodpecker. (F. 972), (J. 160), 
(+1) 
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