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TODY. 



GENUS XXXI.— TODY. 



* With Bills moderately broad. 



A Var. 



21 Red-breasted 



1 Green Tody 



11 Ferruginous-bellied 



22 Yellow-bellied 



2 Variegated 



12 White-rumped 



23 Blue-grey 



3 Cinereous 



13 Rusty 



* * With exceedingly broad 



4 Brown 



14 Yellow-rumped 



Bills. 



5 White-headed 



15 Yellow-crowned 



24 Great-billed 



6 Short-tailed 



16 Guinea 



25 Broad-billed 



7 Plumbeous 



17 Rufous 



26 Javan 



8 Dusky 



IS African 



27 Sumatran 



9 White-c .linned 



19 Red-crowned 



28 Boat-billed 



10 King 



20 Black-headed 



29 New-Holland 



N this Genus the bill is thin, depressed, broad ; base beset with 

 bristles. 



Toes placed three before and one behind ; the middle one greatly 

 connected with the outer. 



Birds of this Genus inhabit the warmer parts of the world, and 

 vary considerably in their bills as to breadth, but all of them have 

 a certain flatness or depression which is peculiar. They bear great 

 affinity to the Flycatchers, and, to say the truth, the two Genera 

 run much into each other ; however, in one thing they differ ma- 

 terially, for in the Tody the outer and middle toes are much con- 

 nected, but in the Flycatcher they are divided to their origin. 

 Perhaps more might be brought into this section, but as many 

 birds are only to be seen on paper, if the draughtsman should not 

 think a just expression of the toes to be a matter of consequence, 

 we must remain in the dark, where the writer has omitted it in the 

 description, 



Concerning the birds here described, authors have held different 

 opinions. M. Temminck only allows the first to be a true Tody, 

 making the Cinereous a Gobemouche, and entering the Plumbeous 



