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BLACK-BILI/EP 



PLATE XXIX. 



Upper parts, with the chin and pectoral collar, black ; be- 

 neath, dark red ; scapulars naiTow aiid white. 



Todus nasutus, Latham, Index Orn. i. p. 268 ; Gmelin^ i. p. 

 44G. Great-billed Tody, iMtli. Gen. Syn. ii. 664, pi. 30. 

 (fig. pass.); Gen. Hint. iv. 94, pi. 45, (fiV. med.) Cymbir- 

 hynchus nasutus, Vigors __ Eurylaimus nasutus, Tern. PL 

 Cot. 154. Erolla nasica, Lesson. Tr. d'Orn. 260. 



UNDER the name of Todies nasutus, this remark- 

 able bird, although by no means frequent in our 

 collections, was well known to the old ornitholo- 

 gists, as will appear from the various synonymes we 

 can, in this instance at least, quote with safety. 

 As it is at present the only representative of its 

 genus, there is no occasion to go into a particular 

 account of its structure. We may observe, how- 

 ever, that the deep red feathers of the throat and 

 breast, like those of some of this group, are pre- 

 cisely of the same rigid and glossy structure as 

 those on the throat of Querula rubricollis ; and 



