BIKDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 445 



•Isle of Pines).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 300 (near Trini- 

 dad, Cuba; habits). — Bangs and Zappey, Am. Nat., xxxix, 1905, 201 (Isle 

 of Pines). — Menegaux, Rev. Fran^. d'Orn., no. 2, 1909, 23 (Figuabas, e. 

 Cuba). 



[Tod^ls] multicolor Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., 1861, 334. — Gray, Hand-list, i, 

 1869, 79, no. 927.— Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 103.— Cory, 

 List Birds West Ind., 1885, 19. 



Todus portoricensis Lesson, Ann. Sci. Nat., xi, 1838, 167 (Porto Rico; error); 

 Compl. Buffon, 1847, 263. — Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., 1847, 332.— Lembeye, 

 Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 131. — Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 

 1860, 307. 



T[odus] portoricensis Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1847, 63. 



TODUS PULCHERRIMUS Sharpe. 



SHAKPE'S TODY. 



Adult — Above bluish green, rather tinged with olive on the lower 

 back, the wing-coverts showing a very strongly pronounced blue 

 shade; quills blackish, bordered narrowly with light green, shading 

 off into bluish toward the tips of the secondaries ; tail dull greenish, 

 with narrow margins of 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 of the face yellowish 

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

 with silver-white margins to most of the feathers ; rest of under sur- 

 face with a slight crimson blush, varied on the breast with white oval 

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

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

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

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

 coverts washed with pale carmine; upper mandible blackish, lower 

 one yellowish; feet black. Total length 3.5 inches, culmen 0.85, 

 wing 1.9, tail 1.4, tarsus 0.65. 



"Hah. — [Jamaica.]" « 



I have not seen a specimen corresponding to the above description. 

 If not really a distinct species, the type may possibly represent an 

 extreme variation of the very variable T. suhulatus. 



Todus pulcherrimus Sharpe, Ibis, 3rd ser., iv, Oct., 1874, 353, pi. 13, fig. 3 

 (Jamaica?; coll. Brit. Mus.); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvii, 1892, 336.— Cory, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 371 (descr.; synonymy); Birds West Ind., 1889, 166; Cat. 

 West Ind. Birds, 1892, 12, 103, 130, 142.— Scott, Auk, ix, 1892, 275. 



[Todus] pulcherrimus Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 19. 



TODUS ANGUSTIROSTRIS Lafresnaye. 

 narrow-billed todt. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Above plain parrot gieen, very slightly darker 

 on crown, decidedly brighter (approaching emerald green) on orbital 



a Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvii, 1892, 336. 



