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white : scapulars and long coverts nearest them, -whitened internally ; 

 a broad white gorget on the breast : remiges and rectrices plumbe- 

 ous, for the most part, on the lower surface : legs and bill plumbe- 

 ous : talons and tip of the bill, black : iris brown : a long slender 

 drooping crest from the occiput : 1 3 inches long by 30 wide and 7 to 

 8 oz. in weight : bill, \ * : tarsus, 1 *z : central toe, 1 . 



Remarks. These birds are peculiar to the great forests of the 

 lower region, so far as I yet know. The sexes are alike both in size 

 and colours : both in young and moulting birds the leaden colour of 

 the legs is lost in fleshy grey — that of the bill, in dusky grey ; and 

 the powerful complex dentation of the bill, (both mandibles) is in the 

 juniors only traceable as a festoon upon the upper mandible. 



4. — Indication of a netv Genus of the Picidce, with description of the type. 

 A new species, also, of two new species of the Genus Sitta. 

 YuNxiNJi, Swainson. Genus new; Sasia, nobis. Sasya of Nipal. 

 Generic character. 



Bill equal to the head, conico-compressed, pointed and entire : the 

 base furnished with tufts of hair as in Bucco. 



Nares round, basal, lateral, remote, and concealed. Tail short, 

 soft and square; wings equal to the tail, full, soft, first quill sub- 

 bastard, 5 and 6, longest and equal ; tertials sub-equal to primaries. 

 Feet three-toed, hind toe stoutest, sub-equal in length to outer 

 fore ; inner fore connected to first joint. Nails somewhat straight- 

 ened and obtuse. 

 Tongue as in Picus. 

 Type, Sasia ochracea, nobis. 

 Species new. Ochracea ; Ochreous red Sasia. 



Form. It has been described above. In further illustration of it 

 we may, however, add that this singular bird has a close relationship 

 with our Vivia, from which it differs by its rather longer and perfectly 

 M/mngulated bill ; by its shorter, even tail; by the Bucco- like tufts 

 of its bill ; and, above all, by its three-toed feet, the nails of which 

 have hardlv any of the scansorial falcation and acuteness. Its orbits 

 are nude, and it has a transverse corneous opercule before the eye. 



Colour and Size. Subochreous red, with greenish yellow cap and 

 wings ; a white streak from behind each eye ; and jet black unmark- 

 ed tail. 



Wings, internally, dusky ; on their lower surface towards the bases 

 of the quills, as well as the lining of the wings, buff. Legs fleshy 

 yellow : bill plumbeous with a dusky ridge : orbitar skin plumbeous : 

 iris brown: size very minute, 3| inches by 7, and ^ oz. in weight ; 



