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Females, six specimens, wing 48.0-52.5 (50.2), tail 34.3-37.5 (35.7), 

 culmen from base 19.8-21.6 (20.5), tarsus 14.0-14.8 (14.4) mm. 



This tody measures from 115 to 125 mm. in length. The bill is 

 long, flat, and comparatively wide, measuring from 5.5 to 6 mm. in 

 width at the nostril. The throat is red, the breast grayish white, 

 abdomen pale yellowish, and the sides and flanks light red. The 

 under surface is often washed somewhat with reddish. 



TODUS ANGUSTIROSTRIS Lafresnaye 

 NARROW-BILLED TODY, BARRANCOLf, PICHUI, CHICORETTE 



Todus angustirostris Lafresnaye, Rev. et Mag. Zool., October, 1851, p. 478 

 (Dominican Republic). — Cory, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, July, 1884, pp. 

 107-108, col. plate (Puerto Plata, specimens). — Tippenhatjer, Die Insel Haiti, 

 1892, p. 322 (listed).— Cherrie, Field Columbian Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 

 1896, p. 20 (Dominican Republic). — Verbill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 1909, p. 369 (Dominican Republic). — Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 61, 

 1917, p. 412 (Sosua specimens). — Richmond, Smithsonian Misc. Colls., vol. 66, 

 no. 17, 1917, pp. 38-39 (mentioned). — Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vol. SO, 1928, p. 504 (La Hotte, La Selle, Morne Tranchant, Morne Basile, 

 Massif du Nord). — Danfcrth, Auk, 1929, p. 369 (Fonds-des-Negres). — Lonn- 

 berg, Fauna och Flora, 1929, p. 104 (Haiti). — Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. 

 Nat., vol. 68, 1929, p. 319 (Monte Viejo, specimen). 



Suoulatus angustirostris, Cory, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p 103 (error 

 for Todus). 



Todus suoulatus angustirostris, Cory, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 103 

 (Haiti, Dominican Republic). 



Resident; restricted mainly to the hills and mountains. 



Since the other Greater Antillean islands have only one form of 

 tody each it is astonishing to find two distinct species on Hispaniola. 

 For many years the two were confused, until 1851 when Lafresnaye 

 correctly described the present bird from a specimen taken by Salle 

 in the Dominican Republic. Salle himself did not have proper 

 understanding in the matter as in his list published in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Zoological Society of London in 1857 he gives 

 angustirostris as a synonym of suoulatus, believing incorrectly that 

 the differences pointed out by Lafresnaye between the two forms 

 were those distinguishing male and female of one species. By some 

 the narrow-billed tody was later called a subspecies of suoulatus an 

 allocation wholly incorrect as the two are specifically distinct. 



The narrow-billed tody is primarily a species of dense, damp 

 jungles and in Wetmore's experience was found principally in the 

 higher mountains, as on La Selle and near Constanza. Above San- 

 chez he observed it around 450 meters altitude and it seems to be 

 locally common under proper conditions at such elevations. Only 

 along the abandoned railroad at San Lorenzo did he record it at sea 

 level, and here and above Sanchez were the only places where he 



