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Family TODIDJ^. 



(By E. B. SHARPE.) 



Palate desmognathous : basiptervgoid processes absent. 



Sternum with four notches on the posterior margin, open, and 

 not converted into foramina as in the Momoti. 



Ca3ca large. 



Ambiens muscle absent. 



No carotid arteries present, 

 baff """^ feather- tract well defined on neck, and not forked on the 



Oil-gland with well-developed tufts. 



Bill long, flattened, but not serrated. 



Tail-feathers 12. 



Peet anisodactjle. 



Nest none, ahole being tunnelled by the birds themselves 



Jiggs lour, white. 



Range. Confined to the Greater Antilles. 



1. TODUS. 



Todus, Linn. Syst. Nut. i. p. 178 (176G) T. vmdis. 



Cf. Murie, Ibis, 1872, pp. 644-680 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1874, pp. 349-355 ■ ' 



(^'oi-y, B. West Indies, ^^.IQA-lQl. ' 



Emuje. Confined to the Greater Antilles. 



Key to the Species. 



a. "With a tuft of pink on the flanks. 



a'. Chest uniforin, not ocellated with oval 

 spots of white. 

 «". Moustache ending in an ashv-orey 

 spot. 

 a'". Breast white, tinged with green; 



flanks green, with a tuft of pink . .' viridis, p. 334 

 b . Breast pure white : flanks entirely 



K" Ar P^"^',^i*^ "0 ?i:ee» • -^^ ■_ subidatus \_? $ ], p. 334. 



b '. Moustache ending in a bright verditer l + J) F 



spot; breast white, verv slightly 



A- ni. ^i''^-''1 ^'l^^ P'i^^' ^^'■^^P'i tl^ere . . .". multicolor, p. 335. 

 b'. Chest pinkish, ocellated with distinct oval 

 spots of white. 

 c". Above bluish green ; moustache and 



edge of wing light pink ,m/cherrimm, p. 336. 



d . Above brigJit grass-green ; moustache 

 A T?i 1 ^""^if ^°^ °!'J"'? Y^tish subulatus [? dip 334 



b. Flanks yellow, with no pink tuft ; chest ashy -^ ^ 



^^^ fti/pochondriaci(s,T^. 336. 



