398 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Genus TIGA Kaup, 1836. 
Three toes, two in front, one @g@hind; 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. 
Tiga everettt TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 612, pl. 37; Hanreirt, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 18, 418; SHarpPE, Hand-List (1900), 2, 
225; McGrecor and WorcESsTER, Hand-List (1906), 65. 
Balabac (Everett); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Palawan 
(Steere, Everett, Lempriere, Platen, Steere Exp., Bourns & 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, 275; 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 larva. Observed in trees in the open fields in Culion. 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, 
154; 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.) 
