TODY. 81 



and King Species as Moucherolles. Our great and broad-billed 

 Species he has made a Genus of by the name of Platyrinche, from 

 their excessive breadth of the bill ; to which may be added, one 

 under the Genus Eurylaimus, by Dr. Horsfield ; and our three last 

 described have also bills similar ; we have therefore thought it right 

 to unite all the above under one head, with two divisions, to avoid 

 creating a new Genus. 



1— GREEN TODY. 



Todus viridis, Ind. Orn. i. 205. Lin. i. 178. Gm. Lin. i. 442. Bris. iv. 528. t. 41. 2. 



Id. 8vo. ii. 192. Bor. Nat. ii. 141. t. 19. Pall. Spic. vi. p. 16. Vieill. Am. i. 



p. 87. pi. 56. 

 Sylvia gula phcenicea, Klein, 79. 16. 

 Rubecula viridis elegantissima, Raii 187. 40. Sloan. Jam. ii. 306. t. 363. 1. Broiun 



Jam. 476. 

 Todier de l'Amer. Sept. Buf. vii. 225. pi. 11. PI. enl. 585. 1. 2. Tent. Man. Ed. ii. 



Anal. p. ixv. 

 Green Sparrow, or Humming Bird, Edw. pi. 121. 

 Der grune Plattsehnabel, Schmid Vog. p. 69. t. 56. 

 Green Tody, Gen. Syn.W. 657. 1. Gen. Birds, p. 61. t. 6. f. 1. Shaw's Zool. viii. 



129. pi. 16. 



SIZE of a Wren ; length four inches. Bill nearly three quarters 

 of an inch long, much depressed, or flattened, like that of a Duck, 

 and rounded at the tip; the upper mandible brown, the lower orange; 

 irides hazel ; plumage of a beautiful, and peculiarly elegant, green 

 on the upper part of the body, beneath yellowish white ; sides over 

 the thighs rose-colour ; on the throat a spot of very fine red ; legs 

 grey. 



The female is less vivid in colour, the throat of a paler red, and 

 the sides over the thighs of the same colour with the under parts : 

 such is the description of two sent to me, as a pair, from Jamaica : 



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