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to Hartlaub the female differs from the male in having the 

 head and the entire belly greyish olive. 



3. Sasia. 

 Picumnus, pt., Is. Geoffr. St. Hilaire, Nouv. Arch, du Mus. 



1832, p. 397. 

 Sasia, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. v. p. 778 (1836). Type 



*S^. ochracea. 

 Microcolaptes, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 54 (1840). Type 



S. abnormis. 

 Comeris, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. x. p. 27 (1841). Type 



S. ochracea. 

 Dryaltes, Gloger (teste G. R. Gray). Type S. ochracea. 

 Picumnoides, Malh. Mon. Picid. ii. p. 286 (1862). Type 



S. abnormis. 

 Range. Eastern Himalayas, from Nepal and Sikhim to 

 Assam, Arakan, Burmese hills, and Tenasserim, through the 

 Malayan peninsula to Java, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



Claris specierum. 



a. fronte aurea (mares). 



a', fascia supraparotica fulvescenti-alba ; collo postico rii- 



fescenti lavato ochracea. 



b. fascia supraparotica rufa, regioni paroticse concolori ; 



collo postico dorso concolori, nee rufescente abnor7ms. 



b. fronte ruia (feminse). 



c'. fascia supraparotica fulvescenti-alba ochracea. 



d'. fasciji supraparotica rufa abnormis. 



1. Sasia ochracea. 



Sasia ochracea, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. v. p. 778 (1836) ; 

 id. icon. ined. Brit. Mus. App. pi. 35. fig. 3 (659) ; Blyth, 

 J. A. S. Beng. xii. p. 1005 (1843) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 433 

 (1845) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. &c. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 115 

 (1846) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 65 (1849) ; Bp. 

 Consp. Av. Gen. i. p. 140 (1850) ; Reichb. Handb. Spec. Orn. 

 Picin. p. 342 (1854) ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. 

 ii. p. 678 (1856) ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 301 (1862) ; Gray, Cat. 

 Mamm. &c. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 62 (1863) ; Gray, List 

 Picid. Brit. Mus. p. 29 (1868); id. Handl. B. ii. p. 180, 



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