Mr. R. B. Sharpe on the Genus Todus. 345 



Brisson's genus Todus, but associates with the type, T. viridis, 

 the Tyraunine bird now known as Todirosirum cinereum. The 

 diagnosis given will suit any member of the genus ; but the 

 references to Brown, Sloane, and Edwards sufficiently indi- 

 cate that the Jamaican bird was intended. 



1783. BufFon figures (very badly) the San-Domingo Tody 

 in the * Planches Enluminees' (585. figs. 1, 2) as the Todier 

 de St.-Domingue. 



1805 [?] . Desmarest, in the ' Histoire Naturelle des Tan- 

 garas, des Manakins et des Todiers/ figures and describes 

 (pi. Q7) the Porto-Rico bird as Todus viridis. The date of 

 this book on the title-page is given as 1805 ; but works are 

 referred to in the text which were published many years 

 later — for instance, Vieillot's article next mentioned. 



1819. The '' Todier vert," published by Vieillot in the 

 ' NouveauDictionnaire,'xxxiv.p. 184, pi. 29. fig. 4 [fig. mala), 

 is the San-Domingo bird. 



1823. Bonnaterre and Vieillot, in the ^Encyclopedic Me- 

 thodique' (i. p. 269), describe T. viridis, but give the habitat 

 erroneously as N. America. Their description appears to 

 represent the San-Domingo species. 



1825. The Porto-Rico Tody is again figured by Oudart 

 in Vieillot's 'Galerie des Oiseaux' (pi. cxxiv.) as Todus 

 viridis. 



1831. Lesson, in the 'Traite d'Ornithologie ' (p. 250), 

 mentions Todus viridis, Gm., as an inhabitant of Porto Rico 

 in the Antilles {Mauge) . 



1832-33. Swainson, in the second series of his ' Zoological 

 Illustrations' (vol. ii. pi. 66), figures the Jamaican bird as 

 Todus viridis. 



1837. Swainson, in his 'Natural History of Flycatchers' 

 (p. 173), describes the Jamaican bird again, and figures it in 

 the vignette as a frontispiece to the volume. 



1837. Mr. Gould figures in the ' Icones avium ' and de- 

 scribes Todus multicolor from an unknown locality. He refers 

 to the P. Z.S. for 1837 for the original description; but it 

 does not appear to have been communicated to the Zoological 

 Society. This species is now known to be from Cuba. 



