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THE GOLDEN-BACKED THREE-TOED WOODPECKER, 



Two nearly allied species. One or other of which is common in 

 most parts of Burma. Male — Crown of head, and a long crest crim- 

 son, back of the neck, and upper back, black back, golden olive, rump 

 and lower back crimson, lower parts whitish. One having a broken 

 black line down the chin and throat, the other having two. Length 

 about eleven-and-a-half inches. Only three toes. Female — Crimson 

 on head wanting. 



(Nos. g88 and 989. Tiga javanensis and shorei.) 



TiCKELL'S eOLDEN OACKED WOODPECKER. 



A four-toed woodpecker, fairly common in most parts of Burma. 

 Larger than the above, being thirteen inches in length, and having a 

 noticeable white face outlined with black. Male — Forehead brown, 

 crown of head and crest crimson, back golden olive, rump crimson, 

 sides of the head and neck white lined with altoijether five black 

 stripes, breast white streaked with black. Female— Has no red on 

 the head, which is striped black and white. 



(No. 992. C. gutticristatus.) 



1 have omitted a great number of birds, the most noticeable being 

 the Great Slaty Woodpecker which is a large grey bird, the cock 

 bird having a red patch on his cheeks, and the Burmese Great Black 

 Woodpecker being another grand bird, which has glossy black plumage 

 with the lower back and breast white, the cock bird having a fine red 

 crest. 



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THE BARBETS. 



A family which might be mistaken for woodpeckers. They are, 

 however, totally distinct, not having the hardened tail feathers, nor 

 the powerful wedge-shaped bills ol the woodpeckers, and live entirely 

 on fruit and berries. They are coarse looking birds with squat heavy 

 bodies, their predominating colour being green, many of them having 

 very gaudy coloured markings. They are more noticeable from their 

 monotonous notes, one bird seemingly answering another. In nest- 

 ing habits they are like the woodpeckers, excavating holes in rotten 

 timber, one bough often being riddled with a number of nest holes; 

 they lay white eggs without any gloss. 



Barbets perch and do not climb like woodpeckers, only getting 

 into a vertical position when they are working at their nests. Eleven 

 kinds have been recorded from Burma. Two only may be consider- 

 ed common. 



