igig.] Oriental Woodpeckers and JBarbetn. 209 



T.j. rubrupijgialis lias a wing varying between 127 and 

 143 mm., and averaging for 13 specimens 137'5 mm. The 

 so-called type-specimen is a tiny bird with a wing of only 

 127 mm. 



Habitat. South India northwards to southern Orissa and 

 Bombay. 



(7) Tiga everetti. 



Tiga everetti Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 612, pi. xxxvii., 

 (^ et ? : Puerto Princessa, Palawan I. 



This form seems to constitute a quite separate species. 

 The males have no black collar below the nape ; the fore- 

 neck and upper breast are dull olive-brown ; the chin and 

 throat are speckled with black, but have no definite medial 

 line or lines; there is also a red moustachial patch, and 

 the lower plumage, as in T. j. exsul, is barred, not edged 

 with black. 



The female has the posterior crest crimson. 



Habitat. Palawan. 



GAUROPICOIDES RAFFLESI. 



I can find no colour distinctions between the various geo- 

 graphical races of this Woodpecker which are in any way 

 constant. The type locality is Sumatra, and Hesse has made 

 three subspecies — i. e., one from Sumatra, a second smaller 

 one from Borneo, and a third alleged larger one from the 

 Malay Peninsula. 



Hesse also claims that the Malayan bird differs from the 

 Sumatran in that the male in the former has the upper tail- 

 coverts tinged with red, whilst the Sumatran one has none 

 of this tint. Of the 21 fully adult males from the Malay 

 Peninsula in the British Museum collection, [ find 10 have 

 this red tinge and 11 have not ; on the other hand, of the 

 five Sumatran males, one has it slightly and four are 

 without it. This, therefore, would seem to be rather an 

 individual variation than a racial one. 



As regards size, this is so variable that it does not seem a 

 very safe characteristic to trust to ; but of the Museum 



