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



green ; forehead lighter and rather more olive-green than the 

 back, and tinged with orange near the base of the beak ; lores 

 tinged with orange ; sides of face yelloAvish green ; sides of 

 neck dull rufous ; chin white ; throat bright carmine, with 

 silvery white margins to most of the feathers ; rest of under- 

 surface vidth a light crimson blush, varied on the breast with 

 white oval spots to the feathers, producing an ocellated appear- 

 ance, the crimson coloiir brightest on the flanks, shading off 

 into ochraceous buff" on the sides of the vent ; on each side of the 

 upper breast a patch of greenish ; under wing-coverts ochra- 

 ceous buff, the outermost smaller coverts washed with pale 

 carmine ; upper mandible blackish, lower one yellowish ; feet 

 black. Total length 3'5 inches, culmen 0*85, wing 1'9, tail 

 1*4, tarsus 0-65. 



Hab. Jamaica [?]. 



This new species comes nearest to T. subiilatus of S. Do- 

 mingo, having, like that species, the white ocellations on the 

 breast; but it differs from that bird and all other members of 

 the genus by its brilliant coloration below, and by its being 

 bluish green above. 



The type is in the British Museum. 



5. Toi>US HYPOCHONDRIACUS. 



Todus viridis, Desm. H. N. Tang. &c. pi. 67 (nee Linn.) ; 

 Vieill. Gal. Ois. i. pi. cxxiv. (1825). 



Todies mexicanus, Less. Ann. Sc. Nat. xi. p. 167 ; Lafr. R. 

 Z. 1847, p. 333; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 63 (1847); id. Cat. 

 Fissir. B. M. p. 36 (1848); Bp. Consp. i. p. 183 (1850), 

 Baird, Ibis, 1867, p. 260; Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 79 (1869). 



Todus hypochondriacus, Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xi. 

 p. 39 (1866) ; Scl. St Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 103 (1873). 



Adult. Above grass-green, brighter on sides of face and 

 over the eye ; forehead and lores tinged with yellow ; quills 

 blackish, margined with the green of the back, the second- 

 aries almost entirely of the latter coloui* ; tail green, rather 

 duller than the back ; chin white ; throat very brilliant crim- 

 son, with slight silvery white margins ; below the throat a 

 small line of white; moustachial streak white, shading off 



