88 TODY. 



and tail, fine grey brown, spotted with white on the wing coverts ; 

 quills blackish ; throat whitish grey ; breast and belly crossed with 

 dull grey and brown stripes ; vent plain ; under side of the tail as 

 the upper; the two middle feathers blackish.* 



Native place uncertain; supposed to be the West Coast of Africa. 



11— FERRUGINOUS-BELLIED TODY. 



Todus ferrugineus, Ind. Orn. i. 267. Gm.Lin. i. 446. 

 Ferruginous-bellied Tody, Gen. Syn. ii. 662. Shaw's Zool. viii. 126. 



LENTH seven inches and an half. Bill three quarters of an 

 inch, black, much depressed, and ending in a point, which is a 

 trifle bent ; nostrils oval, near the base, where four or five slender 

 hairs take rise, pointing forwards; the plumage on the upper parts of 

 the body rusty black, most of the feathers having a ferruginous 

 tinge on the edges ; sides of the head spotted dusky and white ; 

 chin, and all the parts beneath, dull ferruginous ; over the eyes, 

 and rather behind them, a short pale streak ; quills dusky, the four 

 first ferruginous on the inner webs, in the middle, and most of the 

 others on the middle of the outer webs, making a bar half across 

 the wing ; the tail consists of twelve feathers, even at the end, and 

 two inches and three quarters long, of a plain dusky brown; legs 

 dusky. 



Inhabits South America ; supposed from Cayenne. 



I have met with one in which the upper parts were brown, not 

 black. 



* In the engraving there are fourteen feathers, probably a mistake. 



