49. sAsiA. 555 



Range. From Nepal and Sikhim into Assam, Cachar, and Mani- 

 pur; through Burmsih and the Malayan Peninsula, iuto Sumatra 

 and Nias, Java, and Borneo. 



Keu to the Species. 



A. Entire underparts rufous ; above olive or 



rufescent olive ; young resembling (gene- 

 rally) the adult. 

 a. With a white stripe running backwards 

 from above the eye ; hind neck and back 

 tinged with rufais. 



«''. Forehead golden yellow ochracea S nA., p. 556. 



//'. Forehead rufous, without any golden 



tinge ". ovhracea 5 ad., p. 556, 



c". Forehead dusky olive, like the crown, 

 but with scarcely any admixture of 



rufous ochracea juv., p. 556. 



b' . Without a white stripe running backwards 

 from the eye ; hind neck and back entirely 

 olive ; the breast varied with some golden- 

 yellow feathers. 



d'\ Forehead golden yellow ahnormis S ?^d., p. 558. 



e". Forehead entirely rufous (ihwnnis $ ad., p. 558. 



B. Entire underparts, head, and neck duskv olive ; 



above brighter olive .' everetfi, sex ?, p. 550. 



icon, iyied. 

 Beng. xii. 



1. Sasia ochracea. 



Sasia ochracea, Hoclgs. J. A. S. Benq. v. p. 778 (1836) ; id. u 

 Brit. Mils. App. pl.35. tig. 3 (no.' 659) ; Bli/tk, J. A. S. 1 

 p. 1005 (1843); Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 433 (1845); Gray, Cat 

 Mamm. ^t. Nepal pres. Hodg^. p. 115 (1846) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. 

 As. Hoc. ]). 65 (1840) ; lip. Consp. Av. Gvn. i. p. 140 (1850) ; 

 Reichenb. Scans. Picinee, p. 342 (1854) ; Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. 

 Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 678 (1856); Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 301 (18(i2) ; 

 Gray, Cat. Mamm. ^-c. Nepal pres. Hodi/s. p. 62 (1863) ; Gray, 

 List Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 29 (1868); id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 180, 

 no. 8532 (1870) ; Gould, B. As. vi. pi. xl., S 6 2 (l'S70) ; Jerd. Ibis, 

 1872, p. 10; Blyth &,- Wald. B. Burma, p. 78 (1875); Hume ^• 

 Oates, Sir. F. iii. p. 75 (1875) ; Godic.-Aust. J. A. S. B. 1876, 

 p. 70; Hume i<i- Davison, op. cit. vi. p. 148 (1878) ; Hume, op. cit. 

 viii. p. 88 (1879); Haryitt, Ibis, 1881, p. 231 ; Oates, Str. F. x. 

 p. 192 (1882) ; id. B. Brit. Burn. ii. p. 26 (1883) ; mi7ne, Str. F. 

 xi. p. 65 (1888). 



Comeris ochracea, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 1005 (1843). 



Microcolaptes ochraceu^, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 191 (1845) • 

 Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 8 (1863). ' 



Picumuoides ochraceus, Malh. Picidw, ii. p. 287 (1862). 



Comeris (Sasia) ochracea, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. 1844, p. 85, 



Sasia lacrymosa, Lafr. Rev. et May. Zool. p. 208 (1854). 



Picumuoides lacrymosa, Malh. Picidcp, ii. p. 287 (1862). 



Picumnus ochraceus, Snndev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 106, no. 27 (1866). 



Sasia abnormis, Hume S,- Darison (non Temm.), Stray F. ii. p 472 

 (1874) ; Blyth .S- Wald. B. Burma, p. 78 (1875). 



