Tiga everetti Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 612, pl. 37;
Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1890), 18, 418; Sharpe, Hand-List
(1900), 2, 225; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 65.
Balabac (Everett); Calamianes (Bourns & 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
larvæ. 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.)
Genus CHRYSOCOLAPTES Blyth, 1843.
Culmen nearly straight; nasal ridge strongly marked; nostrils exposed;
feathers of throat and breast with large nearly circular light spots
bordered with black or blackish brown; upper parts red or yellow;
inner webs of quills with large white spots; of medium size, length
250 to 280 mm.; bare space around eye larger than in Tiga and the
crest laterally compressed instead of being spread out.
Species.
a1. Mantle and back golden yellow. ... erythrocephalus (p. 399)
a2. Mantle and back largely crimson.
b1. Sides of head and entire lower parts strongly washed with
yellow. ... xanthocephalus (p. 402)
b2. Sides of head and lower parts not washed with yellow.
c1. Wings and mantle crimson without any mixture of yellow.
d1. Chin and jaw not washed with crimson; light spots on throat
and fore breast nearly round ... hæmatribon (p. 400)
d2. Chin and jaw washed with crimson; light spots on throat
and fore breast pear-shaped ... rufopunctatus (p. 402)
c2. Wings and mantle more or less orange or yellow.
d1. Wings and mantle crimson mixed with golden yellow ... lucidus
(p. 401)
d2. Mantle and wing-coverts orange with scarcely a tinge of
crimson. ... montanus (p. 401)