Piculets of the Old World. 235 



E Mus. Brit. 



a, b ['^ ad.] ; c, imm. Sk. Nepal {B. H. Hodgson). 



d, e,f[^ ad.] . Sk. Nepal {B. H. Hodgson). India Museum. 

 y [ <^ ad.] ,h/i{^$ ? imm.] . Sk. Nepal {B. H. Hodgson) . 

 k [J* ad.]. Sk. Nepal. Purchased. 

 /. St. Nepal [B. H. Hodgson) . Type of the species *. 



E Mus. E. Hargitt. 

 n. ^ imm. Nepal. Purchased. 



b, c, d. $ ; e. ? ad. Darjeeling [L. Mandelli). 



f. c? ad. Native Sikliim, Januajy 1874 {L. Mandelli). 



2. Sasia abnormis. 



Picumnus abnormis, Temm. PI. Col. vol. iv. pi. 371. fig. 3 

 (1825) ; Less. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 115 (1828) ; Wagl. Isis, 

 1829, p. 647; Less. Traite, p. 231 ; Swains. Classif. B. ii. 

 p. 311 (1837); Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 302 ; Sundev. Consp. Av. 

 Piciu. p. 106 (1866). 



Microcolaptes abnormis, Gray, List Gen. B. 1840, p. 54 ; 

 id. List, 1841, p. 70; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 191 (1845) ; 

 Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hcin. Th. iv. p. 8 (1863). 



Sasia abnormis, Gray, Geu. B. ii. p. 433 (1845) ; Blyth, 

 Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 65 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. *140 

 (1850) ; Reichb. Handb. Spec. Orn. Pic. p. 342, pi. dcxviii. 

 fig. 4119 (1854) ; Wallace, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. [2] xv. 

 p. 96 (1855) ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. 

 p. 678; Sclater, P.Z. S. 1863, p. 211; Pelz. Reis. Novara, Vog. 

 pp. 101, 162 (1865) ; Gray, List Picidse Brit. Mus. p. 29 



* Mr. Moore, in the Catalogue of the East-India Company's Museum, 

 states that the three specimens presented to that institution by Mr. 

 Hodgson were the types of the species. These specimens are now in the 

 British Museum, and are enumerated above as d, e,f. Mr. Hodgson's 

 figure in his unpublished drawings appears to represent a male, but is not 

 so well drawn as is usually the case. It appears to me, however, to have 

 been taken from specimen /, which was presented about the same time as 

 the drawings to the British Museum, some years before any were given 

 to the India Museum. It is, in all probability, the actual type of the 

 species, though this question is now of less moment, since the addition of 

 the India-Museum collection to the British Museum, in which institution 

 the typical specimen now exists without doubt. 



