iSS6.] Cory oh t/ic Birds of the West Indies. 3^9 



Nutt. Oi-n. Club, V, p. 169 (iSSo) (Santa Lucia).— Cory, Bds. Ba- 

 hama I. p. 115 (18S0). — A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 109 

 (iSS)).— Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI, p. 153 (1S81) (Haiti).— 

 Grisdale, Ibis, 1882, p. 4S6 (Montserrat). — Cory, Bds. Haiti & 

 San Domingo, p. 103 (1885) ; ib. List Bds, W. I. p. 19 (1S85). 

 Alcedo {Ceryle) alcyon Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, p. 95 (1866) 

 (San Domingo). 



Common throughout the West Indies. 



Family TODID.^. 



Genus Todus Linn. 



7"(>r///.<; Brisson, Orn. IV, p. 528 (1760). — Linn.eus, Syst. Nat. I, p. 19S 

 (1766). 



Todus viridis Linn. 



Todus viridis Linn. Sjst. Nat, I, p. 178 (1766). — Gosse, Bds. Jam. p, 72 

 (1847).— Denney, p. Z. S. 1847, p. 38.— Bp. Consp. I, p. 182 (1850). 

 ^Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 199. — ScL. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 

 263 (1862). — ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 103 (1S73). — 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1874, p. 349. — A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 

 109 (18S1).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 19 (1885). 



Sp. Char. — Entire upper surface bright grass-green; throat bright red, 

 the feathers showing delicate tippings of white when held in the 

 light; a narrow stripe of white on each side of the throat, becoming 

 grayish as it reaches the breast; breast dull white, strongly tinged 

 with green; bellr very pale yellow; a patch of pink on the sides of 

 the body ; primaries dark brown, narrowly edged with green; the 

 inner primaries and secondaries having nearly the entire outer web 

 green ; under surface of tail brownish ; upper surface of tail green. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length, 4.60; wing, 1.80; tail, 1.40; tarsus, .45; bill, .62. 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



Todus angustirostris Lafr. 



Todus angustirostris Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1S51, p. 478. — Salle, P. Z. S. 

 1857, P- 233 — Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, p. 91 (1866). 

 — Sharpe, Ibis, 1S74, p. 352. — Cory, Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 

 107 (18S5) ; ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 19 (1885). 



