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black on the lower parts throughout. There is no black or 

 blackish bar behind the crimson tips of the coronal feathers in the 

 male, and the bases of the feathers are paler ashy ; whilst in the 

 female the feathers on the top of the head are brown with long 

 white shaft-lines. 



Bill blackish slaty ; irides crimson ; legs plumbeous (Jerdon*). 



Length about 12 ; tail 4-25 ; wing 6 ; tarsus T05 ; bill from 

 gape 1*6. 



Distribution. The lower valleys of the Himalayas from Dehra Dun 

 to Bhutan, also Bhamo and the neighbourhood of Thayet Myo in 

 Upper Pegu. It is remarkable that neither this species nor the 

 last appears to have been observed in the countries between 

 Burma and the Himalayas. Eeported occurrences of T. shorei in 

 the Indian Peninsula need confirmation ; they may have been 

 founded on large specimens of T. javanensis, but one in Blyth's 

 Catalogue, from Goomsur, should not be forgotten. 



It is on the whole doubtful whether this form should be kept 

 separate from T. javanensis. 



Genus GAUROPICOIDES, Malherbe, 1861. 



Three toes only, the hallux or inner posterior toe wanting ; 

 hind toe shorter than outer fore toe. Bill with the culmen 

 straight and sharply augulate, the nasal ridge well marked, near 

 the culmen; nostrils at base of bill, nasal plumes short, but 

 covering the nostrils. Tail-feathers narrow, all pointed except 

 the outer pair, which are but little shorter than the next. Wings 

 very rounded. 



Coloration yellow above, brown below, the head banded with 

 black and white at the side ; male with a red, female with a black 

 cap. A single species. 



990. Gauropicoides rafflesi. Raffles's Three-toed Woodpecker. 



Picus rafflesii, Vigors, Raffi. Mem., App. p. 669 (1830). 



Tiga rafflesi, Strickland, P. Z. S. 1846, p. 103; Blyth, J. A. S. B. 

 xv, p. 16 ; id. Cat. p. 57. 



Chrysonotus rafflesi, Horsf. Sf M. Cat. ii, p. 658. 



Gauropicoides rafflesi, Malh. Picidce, i, p. liii ; Hume, S. F. iii, 

 p. 319 ; id. Cat. no. 185 bis ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi, p. 146; Oates, 

 B. B. ii, p. 42 ; Hargitt, Cat. B. M. xviii, p. 132. 



Coloration. Male. Whole cap, nape, and long pointed nuchal 

 crest bright crimson ; nasal plumes and lores pale brown ; lower 

 lores and a band from them under the eye to far down the side of 

 the neck white, also a white supercilium from above the eye to 

 the nape ; a band down the back of the neck, a line above the 

 supercilium, a broad band below it from the eye, and a third line 

 from the base of the lower mandible black, the lowest line is 

 narrow and brown at first but broader behind ; back, scapulars, 

 secondary-coverts, and outer webs of secondaries golden olive, the 



