128 PLUMBEOUS TODY. 



white: upper parts black, but the inner margins 

 of some of the quill-feathers, and the under coverts 

 of the wings white: tail very short: bill dusky: 

 legs black. Native of America. 



PLUMBEOUS TODY. 



Todus plumbeus. T. plumbeo-nigricans, subtus nivcus, Venice r<?- 

 migibus rectricibusque, nigricantibus. Pall, spic. 6. p. 17. Lath, 

 ind. orn. 



Blackish lead-coloured Tody, milk-white beneath, with blackish 

 crown, wings, and tail. 



Plumbeous Tody. Lath. syn. 



DESCRIBED by Dr. Pallas: size of a Wren: 

 upper parts hoary lead-colour, inclining to black 

 on the crown : beneath, from throat to tail, milk- 

 white : quills and tail dusky black with the outside 

 edges of the quill-feathers white: bill and legs 

 dusky. Native of Surinam. 



