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Total length 3'2 iuches_, culmen '53, wing 2'\, tail '85, 

 tarsus •55. 



Young. Above uniform yellowish olive; wing-coverts similar 

 to the back ; quills dusky black, edged externally with olive ; 

 the margin of the basal two thirds of the inner webs whitish, 

 at the extreme base white ; shafts black ; rump olive, the 

 feathers tipped with dingy rufous; upper tail-coverts black; 

 tail and shafts black ; forehead and crown uniform dusky 

 olive ; sides of the face dingy rufous ; sides of the neck olive ; 

 chin and throat a mixture of olive dusky and dingy rufous ; 

 under surface of the body olive dusky, tinged with dingy 

 rufous on the flanks and thighs ; under tail-coverts dingy 

 rufous ; under surface of the tail and shafts black ; under 

 wing-coverts white, with a very faint buffy tinge ; the carpal 

 joint and edge of the wing dusky ; under surface of the wing 

 dusky, the basal two thirds of the margin of the inner webs 

 whitish, with a tinge of buff'; shafts light grey, white at the 

 base. 



Total length 3'1 inches, culmen '48, wing 2*1, tail "9, 

 tarsus '55. 



Another young bird, closely resembling the above, has the 

 feathers over the nostrils rufous, likewise the ear- coverts and 

 ^the fore part of the cheeks and chin. 



Total length 2'9 inches, culmen '45, wing 2*0, tail '85, 

 tarsus "55 {Mus. Brit.). 



This little species represents the Himalayan Sasia ochracea 

 in the Indo-Malayan subregion, where it seems to be well 

 distributed. It is frequent in Malaccan collections, and was 

 at first supposed to range, like many Malayan species, into 

 Southern Teuasserira, Mr. Davison having procured a speci- 

 men near Ye, which Mr. Hume referred originally to Sasia 

 ahnormis (cf. Str. F. 1874, p. 472) ; more recently, however, 

 he has come to the conclusion that it was only S. ochracea 

 (cf. Str. F. 1878, p. 148). 



As far as we know at present, it does not range very high 

 in the Malayan peninsula, as Dr. Stoliczka did not meet with 

 it in Province Wellesley. In Sumatra it was procured by 

 Mr. E. C. Buxton, and also by Mr. Wallace ; but Dr. Beccari 



