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BIRDS OF BKITISH BURMAH. 
Genus GAUEOPICOIDES, Malh. 
437. GAUROPICOIDES RAPFLESII. 
RAFFLES^S THREE-TOED GREEN WOODPECKER. 
Picus rafflesii, Vig. App. Mem. Raffl. p. 669 j Sundev. Consp. Av. Pic. p. 57. 
Chloropicoides rafflesii, MaUi. Mon. Pic. ii. p. 102, pi. Ixxii. fig. 1-4. 
Gauropicoides rafflesii, Malh. Mon. Pic. i. p. liii ; Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 54 ; 
Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 146; mime, S. F. viii. p. 88. 
Descynption. — 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 o£ 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. 
Ratfles^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. 
