86 TODY. 



with two obscure pale narrow bars across the wings ; beneath yel- 

 lowish white; chin pale; quills and tail dusky, edged with grey ; 

 the latter two inches in length, and very little hollowed, nearly 

 even at the end ; legs dusky, slender, weak ; the quills reach to the 

 middle of the tail. 



Inhabits North America, where it frequents the decayed parts 

 of trees, and has all the actions of a Flycatcher. It has an agree- 

 able note, two or three times repeated, but not what may be called 

 a song. It feeds on insects. 



I have received this Species from Rhode Island ; it is also found 

 in Georgia ; one sent from thence, named by Mr. Abbot, Lesser 

 Peewee Flycatcher. 



9— WHITE CHINNED TODY. 



Todus gularis, Ind. Orn. i. 268. 



novus, Gm. Lin. i. 446. 



White-chinned Tody, Gen. Syn ii. 663. Shaw's Zool. viii. 123. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill one inch and three quarters long, 

 much depressed, three quarters of an inch broad at the base, and 

 ending in a point, near the end bending upwards ; nostrils oval, 

 placed near the base ; the plumage brown above ; chin white ; fore- 

 part of the breast the same, somewhat mottled with brown, which 

 mottling seems to take place round the neck at the lower part 

 behind, though not mixed with white ; belly and vent white ; tail 

 three inches long, rounded at the end ; legs brown, one inch and a 

 half long ; on the shins seven indented oblique segments ; all the 

 toes full of rough segments, ten in number at least on each. 



I met with this preserved in spirits at Sir Joseph Banks's, many 

 years since, but the place it came from could not be ascertained. 



