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`The Ministry of Communications is issuing the second part of a series of bird postage stamps with Fairy Pitta and Tristram`s Woodpecker as its theme. 1. Fairy Pitta Fairy Pitta, a forest bird, is about 18㎝ long, plump and of bright colour with long legs and a short tail. This bird has the plumage of ``all the colours of the rainbow`` with the back and wings green, shoulders and rump cobalt blue and tail black. A local summer visitor from late May to mid­September, it breeds in this country and leaves for the south to spend winter. It lives on the ground and feeds by scratching for insects, ants, ect. among fallen leaves. This bird is rarely seen on the southern slopes of Mt. Halla on Cheju­do and some fo the other islands off the south coast. 2. Tristram`s Woodpecker Tristram`s Woodpecker, a very rare resident and endemid bird in Korea, is a large woodpecker of 46㎝ long. Its upperparts, throat and upper breast are black while the remainder of its underparts and rump are white. The male bird has a crimson crown and crimson cheek patches. Living in mature forest, it was formerly fairly common in the forests in Kangwon­do and Kyounggi­do but although it is protected as a Natural Treasure, it has decreased in numbers and is now on the verge of extinction. A single bird was observed at the Kwangnung Experimantal Forest Station in 1969 and 1970 respectively.`