BIEDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEBIOA, 447 



TODUS SDBUIATUS Gray. 



HAITIAN TODY. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Above, including sides of head, plain green 

 (varying from grass green or parrot green to a much brighter hue) ; 

 a malar stripe of duU white, passing into gray posteriorly; chin dull 

 white; throat soft geranium red, the feathers narrowly tipped with 

 BUvery white; lower foreneck dull white; imder parts of body whitish 

 or pale sulphiu- yellow medially, the chest usually faintly shaded 

 with pale yellowish gray, the sides and flanks mostly soft geranimn 

 pink (the chest also often touched with pink); imder taH-coverts 

 bright sulphm- yellow; axillars and under wing-coverts light sulphm- 

 yellow, the edge of wing yellowish white; maxilla horn brown to 

 nearly black, mandible brownish white (pink or yellow in life) ; iris 

 brown; legs and feet dusky brown (in dried skins). 



Young. — Upper parts as in adults; malar region pale dull grayish 

 buflfy or dull yellowish white, the chin similar but more grayish; 

 throat pale yellowish buffy, slightly tinged with red; rest of under 

 parts yellowish white, the chest broadly streaked, or striped, with 

 dusky gray, the under taU-coverts more yellowish, tinged with green. 



Adult male.— Length (skms), 102-113 (107); wing, 47.5-53 (50); 

 tail, 33-37 (35.4); exposed cuhnen, 18.5-22 (20.5); width of bill at 

 nostril, 5.5-6 (5.8); tarsus, 13-14.5 (13.8); middle toe 8.5-10 (9.1).« 



Adult female.— Ijength. (skins), 101-113 (108); wing, 47-51.5 

 (49.2); tail, 33.5-38 (35.5); exposed culmen, 18-21 (19.7); width of 

 bill at nostrils, 5.5-6 (5.7); tarsus, 13-14.5 (13.8); middle toe, 8.5-9.5 

 (8.7)." 



Island of Haiti (Port au Prince, Le Coup, and Jeremie, Haiti; 

 Mani6l, Honduras, San Crist6bal, Puerto Plata, Samana, Sanchez, 

 Cafia Honda, El Vaile, La Canita, and San Francisco, Santo Domingo). 



Todtis viridis (not of Liimseus) Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., i, 1807, 87, 56; Nouv. 

 Diet. d'Hiflt. Nat., xxxiv, 1819, 184, part, pi. 29, fig. 4 (Santo Domingo).— 

 BoNNATEHEE and Vieillot, Enc. M^th., i, 1823, 269. 



Tlodus] suhulatus Gray, Gen. Birds, i, April, 1847, 63. 



Todus subulatus Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1847, pi. 22. — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 

 1850, 182.— ScHiEGEL, Mus. Pays-Bas, ui, no. 19, 1863, 8.— Sharpe, Ibis, 

 1874, 351, part, pi. 13, fig. 1; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvii, 1892, 834, part 

 (Puerto Plato, Santo Domingo; Haiti; e-ad.eyn.angustirostris). — Tristram, 

 Ibis, 1884, 168 (Santo Domingo).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 370; Birds West 

 Ind., 1889, 165; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 11, 103, 131.— Cherrib, Contr. 

 Orn. San Dom., 1896, 20 (habits).— Christy, Ibis, 1897, 332 (habite). 



[Todus] suhulatus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 79, no. 929.— Cory, List Birds West 

 Ind., 1885, 19. 



Todus dominicensis Lafrbsnaye, Eev. ZooL, 1847, 331 (based on Le Todier de 

 St. Domingue Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 585, figs. 1, 2). — Salle, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1857, 233 (habits).- Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 264.— Bry- 



» Ten specimens. 



