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tail feathers dark greeiij their inner webs and under surface yellowish; 

 the two centre feathers dark green at their base, bluish for the 

 remaining two-thirds, and tipped yellowish ; .all black shafted ; under 

 wing-coverts greenish yellow. The female is entirely green, and wants 

 the rose collar; bill coral red; irides pale yellow; feet cinereous. 



Length. — ]6'5 to 16'6 inches, wing 6-5 to 7, tail 9'5, bill at gape 1. 



Hah. — Throughout India, part of Bui'mah, Ceylon, Punjab and Sind ; 

 extends to the lower Himalayas, Upper Pegu, and Nepaul. Occurs 

 abundantly in the Concan and Deccan, Kutch, Kattiawar, Jodhpore, 

 and N. Guzerat. Breeds throughout India in colonies. Eggs pure 

 white, 4 in number. 



Family, PIOID^,— Woodpeckers. 

 Bill long, straight, sharp and compressed at the tip. 



Sub-Family, PICIN^,— G. R. Gr. 



Bill truncated at tip; sides of upper mandible with a distinct ridge. 



Gen. Picus. — L. et Brehm. 



Height and breadth of bill equal; nostrils hidden by bristles ; fourth 

 quill of wing longest ; tail long, rounded. 



Picas SCindianus, Gould.; Horsf. and Moore, Gat. Mus. K I. O.ii. 

 p. 671 ; Jerd. B. of India, i. p. 273, No. 158; Hume, Ibis. 1870, p. 629; 

 Jerd. Ibis. 1872, p. 7; Hume, Sir. F. i. Tp. 170; Lahore to Yarkand, 

 pi. ii. ; Murray, Edbk., Zool., cfc, Sind, p. 130. — The Sind Pied Wood- 



PECKEE. 



Adult Male. — Forehead, lores, sides of the head, ear-coverts, super- 

 cilia and breast white, tinged buffy on the forehead, or a soiled white ; 

 a very narrow dark line above the superciHa ; a dark stripe from the 

 lower mandible extending down each side of the throat, projecting 

 to the lower side of the breast, and joining the back at the shoulder ; 

 crown of the head mixed crimson and black; back, rump, upper tail- 

 coverts and centre tail feathers glossy black, with a dusky tinge; 

 scapulars and the adjacent wing-coverts white, the remainder of the 

 wing-coverts black with a few white spots ; quills brownish black, 

 spotted with white on both webs forming white wing bars, of which 

 there are four on the primaries and three on the secondaries ; lateral 

 tail feathers black, barred-aud tipped with white ; lower parts white, 

 with a few dusky streaks on the flanks and abdomen ; middle of abdo- 

 men and lower tail-coverts crimson ; bill blackish above, bluish grey 

 below, r25 inch long ; legs dusky ; irides dull crimson. 



Length. — 8'5 to 8 '75 inches, wing 4-9 to 5, tail 3. The Adult Female 

 has the crown black and is smaller than the male. 



Hah. — Sind, Beloochistan, South Afghanistan, Punjab, in the Salt 

 Range, at Attock, Rawulpindee, Peshawur, and Cashmere. In Sind it 

 is a resident and breeds in April. 

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