Mr. R. B. Sharpe on the Genus Todus. 347 



orange on the flanks/' It is certain that there is something 

 to be elucidated concerning the Jamaican Todus as regards 

 its plumages, as I remark below. All Dr. Sclater's specimens 

 have the small bill and no blue neck-spot ; yet one of them was 

 marked a male by the late W. Osbxu'n. 



1848. Mr. G. R. Gray, in the ' List of Fissirostres in the 

 British Museum ' keeps the Todinse as a subfamily of the Co- 

 raciidse, and mentions three species in the collection — Todus 

 viridis, from Jamaica, T. multicolor, and T. mexicanus, from 

 Mexico, 



1850. Lembeye, in his ' Aves delalsla de Cuba/ gives no 

 particular account of the Todus, which he only mentions in 

 his catalogue of the birds of the island (p. 131). 



1850. Prince Bonaparte, in the ^Conspectus' (i. p. 182), 

 places the Todinae between the Psarinse and the Tyranninae. 

 Four species, T. viridis, T. mexicanus, T. multicolor, T. subu- 

 latus, are recognized. 



1851. Lafresnaye describes as new Todus angustirostris from 

 S. Domingo, coUectedby Salle (Rev. Zool. 1851,pp. 477-i79). 



1856. Dr. Gundlach, in a paper on the birds of Cuba (J. 

 f. O, 1856, p. 101), describes the young bird of T. multicolor. 



1857. M. Salle gives the ornithological results of his 

 travels in S. Domingo (P. Z. S. 1857, p. 233), and writes an 

 account of the habits of Todus subulatus, expressing his belief 

 that T. angustirostris is only sexually distinct from T. subu- 

 latus. 



1859. Dr. Gundlach (J. f. O. 1859, p. 347) places the 

 genus Todus between Alcedo and Muscicapa. 



1859-60. Messrs. Cabanis and Heine, in the ' Museum 

 Heineanum ' (Th. ii. p. 49), include the Todinse as a subfamily 

 of the Tyrannidae, placing Todus close to Platyrhynchus and 

 Triccus [Todirostrum auct.). 



1861. Gundlach gives a tabular view of the birds of Cuba 

 in the ' Journal fiir Ornithologie,' and mentions T. multicolor 

 at p. 334. He describes the nesting of the bird (p. 414). 



1861. Dr. Sclater describes Mr. Osbum's Jamaican col- 

 lection, wherein Todus viridis occurred (P. Z. S. 1861, p. 77). 



1862. Dr. Sclater has two species in his collection, and 

 gives some of the synonymy (Cat. Am. B. p. 363). 



