436 PICID/E. 



branches of trees, which they excavate themselves. Eggs, seven in number, 

 pure white, varying from 0-58 to o'6i inch in length and from 0*49 to 0-5 I 

 inch in breadth. Mr. Thompson says they are capital insect-hunters and 

 destroy vast quantities of the eggs and larvae of xylophagus beetles. 



Gen. Sasia, Hodgs. 



General characters as in Vivia, the bill a little longer and broader ; 5th 

 and 6th quills equal and longest ; feet 3-toed ; hind toe stout and large ; 

 claws long, straight, and blunt. 



1038. Sasia ochracea, ffodgs., J. A. s. B. v. p. 778 ; jerd., 



B.Ind.i.p. 301, No. 187; Hume, Sir. F. iii. p. 75; Blyth, B. Burn. 

 p. 78 ; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 148 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 88 ; 

 Hargitt, Ibis, 188 1, p. 231. Picumnoides ochraceus, Malherbe, Mon. Pic. 

 ii. p. 287 ; Oates, B. Br. Burmah ii. p. 26. Picumnoides lachrymosa (Lafr^, 

 Malh., Mon. Pic. ii. p. 287. Picumnus ochraceus, Sundev., Consp. Av. Pic. 

 p. 1 06. The RUFOUS PICULET. 



Frontal zone golden yellow ; crown and nape olive ; lores and feathers 

 round the eye dusky ; supercilium extending over the ear coverts white ; 

 sides of head, back, scapulars, and the whole lower plumage orange rufous, 

 the back and scapulars with a strong olivaceous wash, and the rump washed 

 with orange ; upper tail coverts and tail black ; the upper wing coverts olive ; 

 1st primary edged with whitish ; other quills dark brown, edged with olive and 

 the tertiaries olive-rufous. The female has the forehead rufescent and not 

 golden yellow. Bill dark plumbeous, lighter below ; irides crimson. 



Length. 3*2 inches ; tail I ; wing 2 ; tarsus 0*5 ; bill from gape o'52. 



Hab. The Himalayas, from Assam to Nepaul ; Cachar, Assam, Khasia 

 hills, Arracan, and British Burmah, in Pegu and Tenasserim. 



Sub-Family. GECININ^E. 



Bill wide, with the culmen more or less curved, with a small or no lateral 

 ridge ; feet small ; hind toe absent or very small. 



Gen. Gauropicoid.es, Maih. 



Hind toe wanting ; bill and other characters as of the sub -family. 



1039. GaurOpiCOideS Rafflesii (Vigors), Malherbe, Mon. Pic. 

 I. p. Hii ; Salvad., Ucc. Born. p. 54; Hume and Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 146; 

 Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 88 ; Gates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 42. Picus Rafflesii, 

 Vigors, App> Mem. Raffl. p. 669; Sundev., Consp. Av. Pic. p. 57. Chloro- 

 picoides Rafflesii, Malh., Mon. Pic. ii. p. 102, pi. Ixxii., figs, i 4. 

 RAFFLES' THREE-TOED GREEN- WOODPECKER. 



Frontal feathers, lores, cheeks, chin, throat, and foreneck orange-fulvous ; 

 crown, nape and a very ample crest scarlet ; stripe from the eye over the ear 



