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blackish colour with whitish edges and tip: colour 

 of the plumage glossy bine-black, with the abdo- 

 men and vent fine purple-crimson, and a bar or 

 crescent of the/same colour beneath the throat: 

 the edge of the alulet or spurious wing, at the 

 shoulders, pale orange, and the scapular-feathers, 

 to the number of six or seven, white, lanceolate, 

 and spread ing over the coverts: legs black: middle 

 and outer toes connected. This curious species 

 was preserved in the Leverian Museum, but its 

 native country was unknown : probably South 

 America. 



WHITE- CHINNED TODY. 



Todus gularis. T. fuscvs, subtus albidus, pcctore fusco varicgato, 



gula alba. Lath. ind. orn. 

 Brown Tody, whitisli beneath, with the breast variegated with 



brown, and white throat. 

 White-chinned Tody. Lath. syn. 



THIS was first described by Dr. Latham, and 

 measures about nine inches in length: its colour 

 is brown above, with the chin and under parts 

 white, slightly mottled round the neck and breast 

 with brown : bill an inch and three quarters long, 

 much compressed, three quarters of an inch broad 

 at the base, and rather bending upwards at the 

 point: legs brown: outer toe unittd with the 

 middle one. Native region uncertain. 



