233 Mr. E. Hargitt on the 



no. 8532 (1870) ; Jerd. in Ibis, 1872, p. 10; Blyth & Wald. 

 B. Burma, p. 78 (1875) ; Hume & Gates, Str. F. iii. p. 75 

 (1875); id. & Davison, op. cit. vi. p. 148 (1878); Hume, 

 op. cit. viii. p. 88 (1879). 



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



Microcolaptes ochraceus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiv. p. 191 

 (1845) ; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 8 (1863). 



Picumnoides ochracens, Malh. Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 287 

 (1862). 



Comeris {Sasia) ochracea, Hodgs. in Gray^s Zool. Misc. 

 1844, p. 85. 



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



Picumnoides lacrymosa, Malh, Monogr. Picid. ii. p. 287 

 (1862). 



Picumnus ochraceus, Sundev. Consp. Av. Picin. p. 106. 

 no. 27 (1866). 



Sasia abnormis, Hume & Davison (nee Temm.), Stray F. 

 ii. p. 472 (1874); Blyth & Wald. B. Burma, p. 78 (1875). 



Adult male. Above, general colour yellowish olive, tinged 

 with orange-rufous ; lesser, median, and greater wing-coverts 

 uniform olive ; primary-coverts dusky black ; bastard wing 

 dusky black, edged with buff; quills dusky black, edged ex- 

 ternally with olive ; the outer web of the bastard primary 

 edged with white ; two or three of the innermost of the secon- 

 daries pale brown tinged with rufous and edged with golden 

 olive ; the basal half of the inner webs of the primaries edged 

 with greyish white; the secondaries have a white patch 

 covering the base of the inner webs, shafts black; rump 

 orange tinged with rufous ; upper tail-coverts and tail deep 

 velvety black, shafts black ; forehead golden yellow near the 

 upper mandible, shading into rufous ; crown olive ; a trace of 

 a rufous collar on the hind neck ; a white stripe from behind 

 the eye ; cheeks, sides of the face, and neck rufous ; the chin,lj 

 throat, and entire under surface of the body orange-rufous, 

 brighter and more deep golden on the breast and abdomen : 

 under tail-coverts rufous ; under surface of the tail and shafts 

 black; under wing-coverts nearly white; under surface of wing 

 dusky ; the margin of the basal half of the inner webs of the 



