448 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



ANT, Proc. Boat. Soc. N. H., xi, 1866, 91 (Santo Domingo; crit.).— Cory, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 154 (Haiti; habits; notes). 



Tlodiis] dominicensis Cabanis and Heine, Mub. Hein., ii, 1859, 49 (Haiti). 



[Todiis] dominicensis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 103. 



Todus multicolor (not of Gould) Schlbgel, Mus. Pays-Bas, iii, no. 19, 1863, 8, 

 part (Haiti). 



TODUS TODUS (Linnseus). 



JAMAICAN TODY. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above plain light grass green or parrot 

 green, the sides of head somewhat lighter (approaching paris green) ; 

 narrow malar stripe and chia white; throat soft geranium red, the 

 feathers narrowly tipped with silvery whitish; rest of mider parts 

 duU white or grayish white, suffused with sulphiu" yellow, especially 

 posteriorly, the under tail-coverts bright sulphur yeUow, the breast 

 (at least laterally) tinged with grayish green; flanks streaked or 

 dashed with bright geranium pink; axUlars and under wing-coverts 

 bright sulphur yeUow, the edge of wiQg yellowish white; maxiUa 

 brown, mandible brownish white (yellow in life?); legs and feet 

 dusky brownish (in dried skins). 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 99-107 (103); wing, 45-48.5 (46.9); 

 tail, 32.5-36.5 (34.5); exposed culmen, 17-20 (18.1); tarsus, 13-14.5 

 (13.9); middle toe, 8-9 (8.4).» 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 93-106 (101); wing, 44.5-48.5 

 (45.9); tail, 32.5-35 (33.7); exposed culmen, 16.5-18 (17.3); tarsus, 

 13.5-14.5 (14.1); middle toe, 8-9 (8.2)." 



Island of Jamaica (Kingston; Moneague; St. Andrews; Metcalf 

 Parish; Port Antonio; Port Alexander; Priestmans Kiver). 



[Alcedo] todus LiNNistrs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 116 (based on Rubecula 

 viridis elegantisdma Edwards, Av. p. 121, pi. 121, fig. 1; Sloan, Jam. ii, 

 306, pi. 263, fig. 1; etc.). 



Todus todus Stejnbger, Stand. Nat. Hist., iv, 1885, 399. — Rilet, Auk, xxi, 

 1904, 486. 



[Todus] viridis Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 178.— Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 

 1788, 443.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 265.— Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 99, 

 no. 925. — ScLATKR and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 103. — Cory, List 

 Birds West Ind., 1885, 19. 



Todv^ viridis Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 71. — ^Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 

 Nat., xxxiv, 1819, 184, part.— Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 1831, 250; Ann. Sci. 

 Nat., ix, 1838, 166.— Swainson, Zool. Illustr., 2d ser., 1833, pi. 66; Mon. 

 Flycatchers, 1838, 173, vignette. — Lafrbsnayb, Mag. de Zool., 3° an., 1833, 

 cl. ii, not. xi, pi. 11; Rev. Zool., x, 1847, 332. — Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 

 72; Illustr. Birds Jamaica, 1849, pi. 14. — Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1847, 38.— Gray, List Fissirostr. Birds Brit. Mub., 1848, 351.— Bonaparte, 

 Consp. Av., i, 1850, 182.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 77; Cat. 

 Am. Birds, 1862, 263; Revised List Birds Jam., 1910, 12.— Albrecht, 

 Joum. fiir Orn., 1862, 199.— Sundevall, Av. Met. Nat. Disp. Tent., 1872, 

 61. — MtTRiE, Ibis, 1872, 390 (anatomy). — Sharps, Ibis, 1874, 349 (monogr.); 



» Ten specimens. 



