This is the beautiful pied wagtail (Motacilla maderaspatensis), of which the charming song must be familiar to all residents of Madras.
Of the woodpeckers mentioned as common in the Western Himalayas, the only one likely to be seen at Darjeeling is Hypopicus hypererythrus--the rufous-bellied pied woodpecker, and this is by no means common.
The handsome pied crested cuckoo (Coccystes jacobinus), which cuckolds the seven sisters, is a bird easy to identify.
Both sexes rejoice in a crimson patch under the tail--a feature common to all species of pied woodpecker.
The southern pied bush-chat (Pratincola atrata) is one of the commonest and most familiar birds of the Nilgiris.
These two species are distinguished from the brown-fronted pied woodpecker by having no brown on the forehead.
The woodpecker most commonly seen in the western hill stations is the brown-fronted pied species (Dendrocopus auriceps).
There's something so breezy and out-of-doors in the sound that it is almost as irresistible a call as the Pied Piper of Hamelin's.
Like the little lame boy in that story of the 'Pied Piper of Hamelin.
As all the lonely town of Hamelin must have felt toward the one child left to it after the Pied Piper had passed through its streets, so all the Valley turned with tender regard to the young girl left in its midst.
It calls to something in our blood, for even the most stolid must at times hearken to the Pied Piper and with Kipling feel that "On the other side the world we're overdue.
Heron has described how one pied peacock was eminently attractive to all his hen birds.
His imagination is a fool, and it goeth in a pied coat of red and white.
It is a rule that any lines of type pied during corrections and reset must have a mark around them on the revise proof to call attention to them for another reading to be sure that no new error has been made.
What should be done if a line of type ispied in correcting?
Pied type in any amount should not be distributed from the hand.
The pied starling, although it does not disdain the insects cast up by the plough, seems to prefer to pick its food out of mud.
As regards size the plumage of the common cuckoo would fit our pied crested friend like a glove.
The yellow-fronted pied woodpecker sometimes selects as a nesting site a spot in a tree-trunk only a few inches above the level of the ground.
The pied crested cuckoo is a bird that is easily recognised.
Last year I spent a few days at Easter in the Himalayas, and there had leisure to watch a pair of pied woodpeckers at work on their nest.
The parasitic habits of the pied cuckoo are interesting.
While he was thus employed a pied kingfisher (Ceryle rudis) appeared on the scene and took up a position on one of three neem trees that grew beside the tank.
Thus it cometh to pass that the pied crested cuckoo, although he cannot hold a candle to such birds as the paradise flycatcher or the oriole, is able to point the claw of scorn at his fellow-cuckoos.
Much remains to be discovered regarding the distribution of the pied crested cuckoo in India.
The white and the pied wagtails are both clothed in black and white, but whereas the face and throat of the former are white, the whole head of the piedwagtail is black save for a white eye-brow.
Although the frenzied screaming of the piedcuckoo is easily recognised, it is difficult to describe.
Walter seems very near me--if I could just sweep aside the thin wavering little veil that hangs between, I could see him--just as he saw the Pied Piper the night before Courcelette.
They were all there around him--he could see them almost as plainly as he saw Rilla--as plainly as he had once seen the Pied Piper piping down the valley in a vanished twilight.
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, with 35 illustrations by Kate Greenaway.
Heron has described how a pied peacock was eminently attractive to all his hen birds.
The story in the Gospels cannot, I suppose, be taken as au pied de lettre historical; but no doubt it gives a general picture which is true enough.
The Palaus mark the northernmost point of range of the Little Pied Cormorant.
And I chiefly use my charm On creatures that do people harm, The mole and toad and newt and viper; And people call me the Pied Piper.
The testator had six black horses, six white horses, and six pied horses.
If the latter he has a right to the pied horses but must forego his claim to the rest.
The Pied Piper had passed her; his call dragged at her soul no more.
But for Anne-Marie, when the time was ripe, the Pied Piper tossed his flute to another Player.
