BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 449 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvii, 1892, 334 (Moneague and Metcalf Parish, Ja- 

 maica). — Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 369 (descr.; synonymy); Birds West Ind., 

 1889, 164; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 11, 103, 130.— Scott, Auk, ix, 1892, 

 274, 373 (habits; descr. nest and eggs). — Field, Auk, xi, 1894, 124 (Port 

 Alexander, Jamaica; habits; descr. nest and eggs). — Nicoll, Ibis, 1904, 577 

 (Kingston, Jamaica). 

 T[odus] viridis Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1840, 9; ed. 1841, 12; Gen. Birds, i, 1847, 

 63. — Newton (A. and E.), Handbook Jamaica, 1881, 109. 



TODUS MEXICANUS Lesson. 



PORTO RICAN TODY. 



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

 (nearly grass green or parrot green), slightly more bluish green pos- 

 teriorly, the sides of head usually brighter and clearer green, espe- 

 cially the superciliary region; chin, malar stripe, and lower foreneck 

 white; throat soft geraniam red, the feathers narrowly tipped with 

 silvery white; under parts of body white centrally, passing into 

 sulphur yellow on sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts (the flanks 

 sometimes tinged with orange-yellow), the chest shaded, more or less 

 strongly, with gray; axillars and under wing-coverts sulphur yellow, 

 the edge of wing white; maxilla blackish, usually paler at tip; man- 

 dible pale brown or brownish white in dried skins, dull vermilion in 

 life; °' iris grayish; "- legs and feet biownish (in dried skins). 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 89-99 (94); wmg, 42.5-45 (43.5); 

 tail, 28-31.5 (29.8); exposed culmen, 18-19.5 (18.8); tarsus, 13-14 

 (13.4); middle toe, 8-9 (8.5).^ 



Adult female.— Length, (skms), 92-98 (95); wing, 41-43.5 (42.6); 

 tail, 28-31.5 (29.6); exposed culmen, 17.5-20.5 (18.5); taisus, 13-13.5 

 (13.2); middle toe, 8-9 (8.5).^ 



Island of Porto Rico (Mayaguez; El Yunque; Utuado; Caguas). 



Todus viridis (not of Linnaeus) Desmarest, Hist. Nat. Tang., etc., 1S05, pi. 67. — 



Vieillot, Gal. Ois., i, 1825, 198, pi. 124. 

 Todus mexicanus Lesson, Ann. Sci. Nat., 2 ser., ix, 1838, 167 (Vera Cruz and 



Tampico, Mexico — error!); Compl. Buffon, 1847, 263. — Lafresnaye, Rev. 



Zool., 1847, 333 ("Vera Cruz").— Gray, List. Fissirostr. Birds Brit. Mus., 



1848, 36. — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 182 ("Mexico et America 



mer.").— Baird, Ibis, 1867, 260. 

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

 [ Todus] mexicanus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 79, no. 926. 

 Todus Tiypochondriacus Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, Jan. 4, 1866, 39, 249 



(Porto Rico); Journ. fur Orn., 1866, 183.— Sundevall, CEfv. k. Vet.-Ak. 



Handl., iv, 1869, 598.— Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1874, 312; 1878, 160, 



180 (crit.; descr. nest and eggs); Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 219. — 



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



Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 12, 103, 132. 

 [Todus] hypochondriacus Sclater and Salvin, Nora. Av. Neotr., 1873, 103. — 



Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 19. 



o C. W. Richmond, manuscript. b Ten specimens. 



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