TODIROSTflUM. '157 



452. Todirostrum maculatum. 

 Spotted Todt-Ttkant. 



Todus maeiilatus Desmarest, Hist. Nat. Tanagras, des Manakms et des 

 Todiers, pi. 70, 1805 (" Guiane "). 



Todirostrum maculatum Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 292 (Bartica Grove) ; 

 Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 73, 1888 (Bartica Grove) ; Bra- 

 bourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 273, no. 2784, 1912. 



Adult (Imale). Crown of Lead black with white margins to 

 some of the feathers on the fore part of the head; back and 

 scapulars slate-grey ; upper wing-coverts and flight-quills dark 

 brown with pale edgings to the feathers ; bastard-wing and 

 primary-coverts uniform dark brown ; tail dark brown on the 

 middle feathers, becoming paler on the outer ones, which are 

 slightly tipped with white, the lower aspect similar ; the short 

 feathers at the base of the forehead and supraloral streak pale 

 grey; ear-coverts pale brown; cheeks and throat white with dark 

 pear-shaped marks on the middle of the feathers becoming yellow 

 on the breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts, which have dark 

 shaft-streaks to the feathers on the breast and sides of the body; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts white with a few dark dots on 

 the latter ; under surface of quills dark brown with white inner 

 edges. 



Total length 95 mm., exposed culmen 15, wing 47, tail 32, 

 tarsus 19. 



The bird from which the description is taken was collected on 

 the Abary River in Jiily 1906. 



I have not been able to examine a female bird of this species, 

 as the only ones that are sexed in the British Museum are males. 



An individual, collected on the Bonasika River in 1911, which 

 is moulting its primary-quills, has the crown of the head white 

 with dark tips to a few of ^he feathers. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Eggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Bartica, Bonasika River, Abary 

 River, Anarica River (McConnell collection) ; Bartica (Whiteli/). 



Extralimital Range. Surinam (Penard), North Brazil. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



