438 PICID^E. 



yellow, tipped with red ; tail dark-brown, tinged with olive yellow on the outer 

 webs near the base, and all but the central pair with white spots on the inner 

 webs ; quills dark brown, the outer webs broadly edged with olive yellow, the 

 inner webs of all spotted with white ; chin blackish ; breast, abdomen, sides, 

 vent, and under tail coverts greenish-brown. The female has the crown, nape 

 and crest yellow. Bill pale milk-blue ; iris red ; eyelids plumbeous ; legs 

 green. (Oates.) 



Length. 10*5 to 107 inches ; tail 4'2 ; wing 4-2 to 5-4; tarsus I ; bill from 

 gape P2. 



ffa&.The Malay Peninsula, and upwards on the Pegu and Tonghoo hills, 

 at an elevation of 2,500 feet. It is said to be common in every portion of 

 Tenasserim. According to Oates it is very partial to large bamboo jungles 

 which grow on the hills. 



Gen- Tiga, Kaup, 



Bill slightly more curved than in the last ; base of bill with a slight lateral 

 ridge ; posterior toe shorter than the anterior ; inner hind toe wanting ; 4th quill 

 and middle tail feathers longest. 



1042. Tiga Javanensis (Ljungh), Salvad, Ucc. Bom. p. 54 ; 



BL and Wald., B. Burm. p. 75 ; Tweedd., Ibis, 1877, p. 288 ; Hume andDav., 

 Str. F. vi. p. 146 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 88 ; Oates, Sir. F t viii. p. 165 ; 

 Bingham^ Str. F. ix. p. 164 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 55. Picus Java- 

 nensis, Ljungh., Act. Stockh. xviii. p. 134, t. 6; Sundev., Consp. Pic. Av. 

 p. 83. Picus shorei, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 175 ; Sundev. /. c. p. 83. 

 Tiga intermedia, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 193. Chrysonotus shorei, Jerd., 

 B. Ind. i. p. 298, No. 183. Chrysonotus intermedius, Jerd., A c. p. 299, 

 No. 185. Tiga shorii, Hume, Str.F. iii. p. 73 ; id., viii. p. 88. Tiga inter- 

 medius, Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 328. Tiga rubropygialis, Hume, Str. F. iv. 

 p. 390. Chrysonotus Biddulphi {Tick.), Wald., Ibis, 1876, p. 344; Hume, 

 Str F. v. p. 497. The COMMON LARGE THREE-TOED WOODPECKER. 



Head and nape, also the occiptal crest, deep crimson ; back of the neck 

 black ; back and scapulars golden yellow, washed with crimson ; rump bright 

 crimson ; upper tail coverts and tail black ; wing coverts and tertiaries golden 

 yellow ; primaries and their coverts dusky black, the primaries spotted with white 

 on their inner web ; secondaries golden yellow on the outer and black, barred 

 with white on the inner webs ; a band of white from the eye, expanding into a 

 patch on the side of the neck, followed by another one of black below it, and 

 a third one of white from the gape, which again is followed by a black band 

 from the base of the lower mandible, the black bands meeting on the 

 sides of the neck below the white patch ; chin and throat white, with a 

 mesial line running down the foreneck ; under surface of the body fulvous 

 white, each feather margined with black ; under wing coverts white, barred 



