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cserulean blue); malar stripe, chin, and lower foreneck white; throat 

 soft geranium red, the feathers narrowly tipped with silvery white; 

 under parts of body mostly white, the chest usually faintly shaded 

 with pale purplish gray, the sides of breast strongly shaded with 

 darker bluish gray (sometimes uniform bluish gray or grayish blue) ; 

 flanks soft geranium pink, this color sometimes tingmg entire sides; 

 under tail-coverts bright sulphur yellow; axillars and under wing- 

 coverts lighter sulphur yellow, the edge of wing white; maxilla light 

 horn brown to nearly black; mandible pale brown or brownish white 

 (pink or yellow in life?); legs and feet brownish (in dried skms). 



Adult maZe.— Length (skms), 87-98 (93); wmg, 42-46 (43.9); 

 tail, 27-32 (29.7); exposed culmen, 16-19 (17.3); tarsus, 12.5-14.5 

 (13.5); middle toe, 8-9 (8.4). « 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 87-96 (92); wmg, 41-45 (42.8); 

 tail, 26-29.5 (28.4); exposed culmen, 16-18.5 (17.5); tarsus, 12.5-14 

 (13.3); middle toe, 7.5-9 (8.3).^ 



Island of Cuba (San Diego de los Banos, Trinidad, El Guamd, San 

 Cristobal, Cabanas, Batabano, and near Palacios, western Cuba; El 

 Cobre, Guama, San Luis, Monte Verde, Figuabas, Santiago, and 

 Guantanamo, eastern Cuba; Nuevo Gerona, Calle Bonita, and 

 Santa Fe, Isle of Pines) . 



(?) Todus viridis (not of Linnaeus) Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxxiv, 1819, 

 184, part. 



Todus multicolor Gould, Icones Avium, 1837, pi. 2. — D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's 

 Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 132, pL 22.— Gray, List Fissirostral Birds Brit. 

 Mus., 1848, 36. — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 182. — Gundlach, Journ. 

 fur Orn., 1856, 101 (habits); 1859, 347; 1861, 414 (descr. nest and eggs); 1862, 

 189; 1871, 288, 293; 1874, 146 (babits); Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1866, 

 293; Orn. Cubana, ed. 1895, 135.— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 

 1860, 307.— ScHLEGEL, Mus. Pays-Bas, iii, no. 10, 1863, 8, part (Cuba).— 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1874, 353 (monogr.); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvii, 1892, 335 

 (San Cristobal, Cuba). — Cory, Auk., iii, 1886, 372 (descr.; synonymy); 

 Birds West Ind., 1889, 167; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 12, 103, 128 (Cuba; 



I am not able to detect any color differences in thg three series. 



