TODY. 93 



points on each side of the cleft a little divided or feathered; the 

 crown full of feathers ; general colour of the plumage above slaty 

 grey ; wings and tail brown, the last two inches long, darker in 

 colour, and even at the end ; throat and breast orange, from thence 

 to the vent nearly white ; legs slender, dusky. 



Inhabits New South Wales, but not common, as only two or 

 three have been met with : in one of these, supposed to differ in sex, 

 the chin and throat were dark coloured, nearly black, not orange ; 

 the rest as in the first described. 



22— YELLOW-BELLIED TODY. 



Todus flavigaster, Ltd. Orn. i. 1G8. 



Yellow-bellied Tody, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 147. Shaw's Zool. viii. 132. 



SIZE of the Brown Tody ; length six inches. Bill short, broad, 

 and pale, with a few bristles at the base; tongue the shape of the 

 bill ; head, chin, and all the upper parts of the plumage ash-colour, 

 inclining to brown, the wings deepest, but paler in the middle; all 

 the under parts, except the chin, yellow ; tail even at the end, and 

 the wings when closed, reach to about the middle of it ; legs dusky. 



Inhabits New-Holland, in the collection of Mr. Wilson. 



23.— BLUE-GREY TODY. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill five-eighths of an inch long, broad 

 at the base, and much depressed, at the gape some hairs pointing 

 forwards ; general colour of the plumage fine glossy blue-grey, very 

 pale ; from the breast to vent pure white ; under wing coverts white ; 

 tail three inches long, even at the end ; that and the quills darker 



