BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 447 



TODUS SUBULATUS Gray. 



HAITIAN TODY. 



Adults (sexes aliTce). — Above, including sides of head, plain green 

 (varying from grass green or parrot green to a much brighter hue); 

 a malar stripe of dull white, passmg into gray posteriorly; chin dull 

 wliite; throat soft geranium red, the feathers narrowly tipped with 

 silvery white; lower foreneck dull white; under parts of body whitish 

 or pale sidphur yellow medially, the chest usually faintly shaded 

 with pale yellowish gray, the sides and flanks mostly soft geranium 

 pink (the chest also often touched with pink); under taU-coverts 

 bright sulphur j^ellow; axillars and under wing-coverts light sulphur 

 yellow, the edge of wing yellowish w^hite; maxDla horn brown to 

 nearly black, mandible brownish white (pink or yellow in life) ; u-is 

 brown; legs and feet dusky brown (in dried skins). 



Young. — Upper parts as in adults; malar region pale dull grayish 

 buffy or dull yellowish white, the chin sunilar but more grayish; 

 throat pale yellowish buffy, slightly tmged with red; rest of under 

 parts yellowish white, the chest broadly streaked, or striped, with 

 dusky gray, the under tail-coverts more yellowish, tinged with green. 



Adult male.— hength (skms), 102-113 (107); wing, 47.5-53 (50); 

 tail, 33-37 (35.4); exposed culmen, 18.5-22 (20.5); width of bill at 

 nostril, 5.5-6 (5.8); tarsus, 13-14.5 (13.8); middle toe 8.5-10 (9.1).« 



Adult female.— l.Qngth (skins), 101-113 (108); wing, 47-51.5 

 (49.2); tail, 33.5-38 (35.5); exposed culmen, 18-21 (19.7); \\ddth of 

 bill at nostrils, 5.5-G (5.7); tarsus, 13-14.5 (13.8); middle toe, 8.5-9.5 

 (8.7).« 



Island of Haiti (Port au Prince, Le Coup, and Jeremie, Haiti; 

 Maniel, Honduras, San Cristobal, Puerto Plata, Samana, Sanchez, 

 Cana Honda, El Valle, La Canita, and San Francisco, Santo Domingo). 



Todus viridis (not of Linnseus) Vieillot, Oia. Am. Sept., i, 1807, 87, 56; Nouv. 

 Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxxiv, 1819, 184, part, pi. 29, fig. 4 (Santo Domingo).— 

 BoNNATERRE and Vieillot, Enc. Meth., i, 1823, 269. 



T[odus\ subulatus Gray, Gen. Birds, i, April, 1847, 63. 



Todies suhulalus Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1847, pi. 22. — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 

 1850, 182.— ScHLEGEL, Mus. Pays-Bas, iii, no. 19, 1863, 8.— Sharpe, Ibis, 

 1874, 351, part, pi. 13, fig. 1; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvii, 1892, 334, part 

 (Puerto Plato, Santo Domingo; Haiti; excl. syn. angustirostris) . — Tristram, 

 Ibis, 1884, 168 (Santo Domingo).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 370; Birds West 

 Ind., 1889, 165; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 11, 103, 131.— Cherrie, Contr. 

 Orn. San Dom., 1896, 20 (habits).— Christy, Ibis, 1897, 332 (habits). 



[Todus] subulatus Gray, Hand-list, 1, 1869, 79, no. 929.— Cory, List Birds West 

 Ind., 1885, 19. 



Todus dominicensis Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., 1847, 331 (based on Le Todier de 

 St. Domingue Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 585, figs. 1, 2).— Salle, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1857, 233 (habits).- Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 264.— Bry- 



o Ten specimens. 



