398 MANUAL OF THILIPPIXK RIHDS. 



Genus TIGA Kaup, 1836. 



Three toes, two in front, one behind ; bill much smaller and weaker 

 that in Chrysocolaptes; culmen curved; nostrils situated near the culmen, 

 nasal ridge weak: occipital crest full. 



362. TIGA EVERETTI Tweeddale. 



EVERETT'S THREE-TOED WOODPECKER. 



Tic/a ererefti Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soe. (1878), 612, pi. 37; Hargitt, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890). 18, 418; Sharpe, Hand-List (1900), 2, 

 225; McGregor and Worcester. Hand-List (1906), 65. 



Balabac (Everett); Calamianes (Bourns <£• Worcester, Mc(lregor) \ Palawan 

 (Steere, Everett, Lempriere. Platen, Htcere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Celestino. 

 White). 



Male. — Forehead, crown, occipital crest, back, and rump scarlet; 

 feathers of crown with black bases ; mantle, wing-coverts, and secondaries 

 golden yellow ; a few of the mantle-feathers slightly washed with scarlet ; 

 primaries, tail, and tail-coverts blackish brown ; inner webs of quills with 

 large white spots; a wide black band from eye to ear-coverts, above this 

 and behind eye a pale buff line bordered above with black; a pale buff 

 line from corner of mouth passing below eye and ear-coverts to side of 

 neck, below this a black line extending from base of lower mandible to 

 side of neck and washed with crimson on the jaws; lower parts pale 

 creamy buff', spotted and barred with blackish brown; a large patch on 

 fore breast olivaceous brown, feathers just below this with large blackish 

 brown centers. Length of a male from Palawan, 27"); wing, 136; tail, 

 not fully grown, 92 ; culmen from base, 31 ; tarsus, 23. 



Female. — Differs from the male in wanting the red on jaw, forehead, 

 and crown, these parts being black; crest-feathers black with some red 

 near their tips. Length of a female from Palawan, 255 ; wing, 137 ; tail, 

 95; culmen from base, 30; tarsus, 23. 



An immature female has no red on the crest. 



"Common in Palawan and the Calamianes Islands. Food, ants and 

 their larvae. Observed in trees in the open fields in t-ulion. Found only 

 in the forest in Palawan. 



"Ten males average, 260 in length; wing, 150; tail, 84; culmen, 29; 

 tarsus, 23; middle toe with claw, 27. Five females, length, 261; wing, 

 134; tail, 84; culmen, 28; tarsus, 21; middle toe with claw, 28. Iris 

 chocolate-brown ; legs and feet dirty green ; bill black, except base of lower 

 mandible, which is gray." {Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



