TODY. 657 



Todus viridis, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 178. N° 1. T . 



Le Todier, Brif. orn. iv. p. 528. N° 1. pi. 41. f. 2. +■ GREEN 



de l'Amerique Septentrionale, Buf. oif. vn. p. 225. pi. 11. A wiJ l ' 



. de St. Domingue, P/. ml. 585. f. 1,2. 



Green Sparrow, or green Humming-bird, Rati Sjn. p. 187. N° 40. — 



Sloan. Jam. ii. p. 306. pi. 263. f. 1. — Brown Jam. p. 476. — Editi. 



pi. 121. 

 Green Tody, Gen. of Birds, p. 61. pi. 6. f. 1, 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



CIZE of a Wren : length four inches. Bill not quite three Description. 



quarters of an inch in length; it is very much depreffed or 

 flatted, like that of a Duck, and rounded at the tip; the upper 

 mandible is brown, the lower orange : irides hazel : the plu- 

 mage is of a beautiful and elegant green on the upper part of the 

 body ; beneath yellowilh white : on the throat is a fpot of very 

 fine red : the legs and claws grey. 



The male, according to Buffon-hzs the upper part of the body Male. 



of a pale blue: the belly white: the breaft and fides rofe- 

 colour. 



This pretty fpecies is found in the warmer parts of the Ame- Places. 



rican continent ; alfo at St. Domingo, Jamaica, and other iflands 

 of the Weft Indies. 



I have had ieveral of thefe from Jamaica, where they are not 

 uncommon ; but have never yet received, nor even feen, the male. 

 I am informed that it is a folitary bird, frequenting the lonely 

 part of moid places, where it is obferved to fit all of a heap, its 

 head drawn in between its fhoulders, and fo ftupid as almoft to 

 fuffer itfelf to be taken by the hand. 



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