42 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



Genus GAUROPICOIDES, Malh. 



437. GAUROPICOIDES RAFFLESIL 



RAFFLES'S THREE-TOED GREEN WOODPECKER. 



Picus rafflesii, Vig. App. Mem. Raffl. p. 669; Sundev. Consp. Av. Pic. p. 57. 

 Chloropicoides rafflesii, Malh. Mon. Pic. ii. p. 102, pi. Ixxii. fig. 1-4. 

 Gauropicoides rafflesii, Malh. Mon. Pic. i. p. liii ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 54 j 

 Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi. p. 146 j Hume, S. F. viii. p. 88. 



Description. Male. Frontal feathers, lores, cheeks, chin, throat and 

 fore neck orange-fulvous ; crown, nape and a very ample crest scarlet ; a 

 stripe from the eye over the ear-coverts down the sides of the neck and 

 another stripe from the gape under the ear-coverts and continued some 

 distance down the neck white ; the space between these two white stripes 

 black ; another broad band under the lower white streak commencing at 

 the end of the cheeks and reaching down the neck black ; back, rump, 

 scapulars and upper wing-coverts golden olive ; quills dark brown, the 

 primaries paler at the tips ; the secondaries and tertiaries very broadly 

 edged with golden olive ; all the quills with a few white spots on the inner 

 webs near the base ; primary- coverts blackish ; upper tail-coverts and tail 

 black ; breast and whole lower plumage dark brown suffused with olive- 

 green ; the sides of the body barred or spotted with whitish ; under wing- 

 coverts olive-brown boldly spotted with white. In some males the feathers 

 of the rump are tipped with crimson. 



The female differs in having the whole of the crimson on the head re- 

 placed by black. 



Legs and feet dark green ; claws dark plumbeous ; irides deep brown to 

 deep brownish red ; upper mandible black or bluish ; tip of lower mandible 

 generally blackish ; rest of lower mandible dark plumbeous to plumbeous 

 blue in different specimens. (Davison.) 



Length 12 inches, tail 4' 5, wing 5 '5, tarsus 1, bill from gape 1'5. The 

 female is considerably smaller than the male. 



Raffles's Three-toed Green Woodpecker occurs in Tenasserim from 

 Mooleyit mountain down to Bankasoon ; and it appears to be a somewhat 

 rare bird. 



It extends down the Malay peninsula, and is found in the islands of 

 Sumatra and Borneo. 



According to Mr. Davison this species is confined to the dense ever- 

 green forests. 



