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Of these three genera Vivia is best known from the Hima- 

 layas, but has also occurred in the forests of the Wynaad. 

 It ranges into China, and has also been found in the Karen 

 hills, in Burmah, by Capt, Wardlaw Ramsay ; and a speci- 

 men has also been obtained by Dr. Beccari in the mountains 

 of Sumatra. Sasia is an Indo-Malayan genus, inhabiting 

 the Sunda Islands, and extending throughout the Malayan 

 peninsula, through the Burmese countries, into the Eastern 

 Himalayas. Verreauxia is a very interesting form, confined, 

 as far as we yet know, to the forests of the Gaboon in West 

 Africa. It affords us another instance of the strong Malayan 

 element which reappears in so many instances in the West- 

 African forest-region ; and this little Piculet is the more 

 remarkable as it unites the characters of the two oriental 

 genera, having the bare face and external aspect of a Sasia 

 and the four-toed foot of a Vivia. 



1. Vivia. 



Picumnus, Burton, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 1854 (nee Temminck). 

 Vivia, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. vi. p. 107 (1837). Type F". 



innominata. 

 Piculus, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. x. pt. 1, p. 29 (1841). 



Type V. innominata. 

 Pipiscus, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. iv. p. 9 (1863). 



Type V. innominata. 

 Range. Forests of the Wynaad, and South-Western Hima- 

 layas and Assam, extending through the hill country of 

 Burmah to Western China; Maychee, in Eastern China; 

 Sumatra. 



Clavis specierum. 



a. minor ; pileo et collo postico olivascentibus innominata. 



b. major; pileo et collo postico rufescenti-bnmneis chinensis. 



1. VlVIA INNOMINATA. 



Picumnus innominatus, Burton, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 154; 

 Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 1005 (1843) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. 

 p. 433 (1845) ; id. Cat. Mamm. &c. Nepal coll. Hodgs. 

 p. 114 (1846) ; Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1847, p. 79, note; Blyth, Cat. 



