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Todus pulcherrimus Siiarpe. 



Todi/s fulcherriiniis Sharpe, Ibis, 1874, p. 353, pi. xiii, f. 3. — Cory, 

 ListBds. W. I. p. 19 (18S5). 



"Above bluish-green, rather tinged with olive on the lower back, 

 the wing-coverts showing a very strongly pronounced blue shade; 

 quills blackish, bordered narrowly with light green, shading off into 

 bluish towards the tips of the secondaries; tail dull greenish, with 

 narrow margins of bluish 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 yellowish green ; 

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

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

 with a light crimson blush, varied on the breast with white oval 

 spots to the feathers, producing an ocellated appearance, the crim- 

 son colour brightest on the flanks, shading oflF into ochraceousbuff on 

 the sides of the vent; on each side of the upper breast a patch of 

 greenish; under wing-coverts ochraceous buff, the outermost smaller 

 coverts washed with pale carmine; upper mandible blackish, lower 

 one yellowish ; feet black. 



"Total length, 3.5 inches; culmen, 0.S5; wing, 1.9; tail, 1.4; tar- 

 sus, 0.65. 

 "Hab. Jamaica? 



'•This new species comes nearest to T. S7(b?i1atns of S. Do- 

 mingo, having, like that S]:)ecics, the wliite ocellations on tlie 

 breast ; but it differs from that l)ird and all other members of tlie 

 genus by its l)rilliant coloration below, and by its being bluish 

 green above. 



"The type is in the British Museum." (Siiarpe, 1. c, orig, 

 descr.) 



Todus hypochondriacus Bryant. 



Todus viridis Desm. II. N. Tang. pi. 67. — Vieill Gal. Ois. I, pi. 124 



(1825). 

 Todus niexicauus Less. Ann. Soc. Nat. XI, p. 167. — Lafr. Rev. Zool. 



1S47, p. 11^ — Bp. Consp. I, p. 182 (1850). — Baird, Ibis, 1S67, p. 



260. 

 Todus hy-pochondriaeus Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. X, p. 250 



(1866). — SuNDEV. Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. For. 1S69, p. 598. —Scl. 



& Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 103 (1873). — Sharpe, Ibis, 1874, p. 



354.-^GuNDL. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 219 (187S). — Cory, 



ListBds. W. I. p. 19 (1S85). 



