398 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



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. 



Tiga everetti TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 612, pi. 37; HAROITT, 

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

 225; MCGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 65. 



Balabac (Everett); Calamianes (Bourns d 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 larvae. 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, 

 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.) 



