TODY. 87 



10.— KING TODY. 



Todus regius, Ind. Orn. i. 267. Gm. Lin. i. 445. 



Roi des Gobe-mouches, Baf. iv. 552. 



Tyran buppe de Cayenne, PL enl. 2S9. 



Moucherolle, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. lxvi. 



King Tody, Gen. Syn. ii. 662. Shaw's Zool. viii. 124. pi. 14. Nat. Misc. pi. 405. 



THIS singular and beautiful species is seven inches long, The 

 bill ten lines, very broad at the base, quite flat, and tending to a 

 point at the tip, which is a little bent ; colour deep brown ; at the 

 base several black bristles, projecting forwards, and as long as the 

 bill itself; on the crown is a crest of a singular structure, placed 

 transversely across the head ; it is composed of four or five ranges of 

 feathers, one shorter than the other, the longest above three quarters 

 of an inch in length, each feather is rounded at the end, and finishes 

 with a black spot ; the rest of the length red, inclining to chestnut ; 

 the hind part of the head, neck, and back black-brown, which passes 

 forwards, and surrounds the neck before as a collar, half an inch 

 broad ; chin white ; over the eye a white streak ; wing coverts reddish 

 brown ; quills dusky ; breast dusky white, crossed with transverse 

 blackish lines; belly, vent, rump, and tail, pale rufous, the last 

 darkest, and two inches in length ; legs flesh-colour. 



Inhabits Cayenne, and is very rare. 



A. — Todus cristatus, Ind. Orn. i. 267. Gm. Lin. i. 446. Naturf. xvii. s. 21. 5. t. 1. 

 Shaw's Zool. viii. 125. pi. 15. 



Size of the other. Bill the same,* and beset with long hairs ; 

 nostrils small ; head furnished with a transverse crest of an uncom- 

 monly fine, dull red colour, tipped with black ; head, neck, back, 



* See the bill on the top of the plate in Naturf. 



