J 56 Cory on the Birds of tlir U'rs^ Indies. 



Todus pulcherrimus Sharpe. 



Todus fulcherrimus Sharpe, Ibis, 1874, p. 353, pi. xiii, f. 3. — Cory, 

 List Bds. W. I. p. 19 (18S5). 



"Above bluisli-green, rather tinged with olive on the lower back, 

 the wing-coverts showing a very stronglv pronounced blue shade; 

 quills blackish, bordered narrowly with light green, shading ofFinto 

 bluish towai-ds the tips of the secondaries; tail dull greenish, with 

 narrow margins cf bluish green ; forehead lighter and rather more 

 olive-green than the back, and tinged with orange near the base of 

 the beak; lores tinged with orange; sides cf face yellowish green; 

 sides of neck dull rufous; chin white; throat bright carmine, with 

 silvery Avhite margins to most cf the feathers; rest cf under surface 

 with a light crimson blush, varied on the breast with white oval 

 spots to the feathers, producing an ocellated appearance, the crim- 

 son colour brightest on the flanks, shading off into ochraceous buff on 

 the sides of the vent; on each side cf the upper breast a patch of 

 greenish; under wing-coverts ochraceous buff, the outermost smaller 

 coverts washed Avith pale carmine; upper mandible blackish, lower 

 one yellowish ; feet black. 



"Total length, 3.5 inches; culmen, 0.85; wing, 1.9; tail, 1.4; tar- 

 sus, 0.65. 

 "Hab. Jamaica.'' 



'•This new species comes nearest to T. subulatus of S. Do- 

 mingo, having, Hke that species, the white ocellations on the 

 hreast ; but it differs from that bird and all other members of the 

 genus by its brilliant coloration below, and by its being bluish 

 green above. 



"The type is in the Briush Museum." (Sharpe, 1. c, orig. 

 descr.) 



Todus hypochondriacus Bryant. 



Todus viridis Desm. H. N. Tang. pi. 67. — Vieill. Gal. Ois. I, pi. 124 



(1825). 

 Todus mexicanus Less. Ann. Soc. Nat. XI, p. 167. — Lafr. Rev. Zool. 



1847, p. 333- — Bp. Consp. I, p. 1S2 (1S50). — Baird, Ibis, 1867, p. 



260. 

 Todus hyfochotidriactis Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. X, p. 250 



(1866). — SuNDEV. Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. For. 1869, p. 598. —ScL. 



& Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 103 (1873). — Sharpe, Ibis, 1S74, p. 



35^._GuNDL. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 219 (1878).— Cory, 



List Bds. W. T. p. 19 (1885). 



