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and white. Typical species, T. cliloris, and others, intimately resem- 

 bling each other. The orange or bufi' colors appear to prevail, espe- 

 cially in the males when fully adult, but in some species in the young 

 birds. 



Species of this genus apparently inhabit all the many islands of the 

 Pacific and Indian Oceans, and some species bear intimate resemblance 

 to each other, but are peculiar to different groups of islands. 



A. The species which are well established, and of all of which spe- 

 cimens are now before us, are as follows : 



1. TODIRAMPHUS CHLORIS [Bodd.). 



Akedo chloris, Boddaert, Tab. dez PI. Enl. p. 49 (Folio, Utrecht, 1783). 

 Alcedo collaris, ScoPOLi, Del Flor. et Faun. Insub. pt. II, p. 90 (1786). 

 Alcedo chlororepliala, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, p. 454 (1788). 



Todii-amphus superciliosa, Gray, Eeichenbach, Vollst. Naturg. PI. CCCCXVIII, figs. 

 8134, 35. 



Buff. PI. Enl. 783, fig. 1 ; Swains. Zool. 111. I, Plate XXVII; Reich- 

 enbach, Vollst. Naturg. Birds, Plate CCCCXVII, figs. 3128, 29. 



Form. — Bill rather compressed towards the point, and with the inferior 

 mandible but slightly curved upwards. Vikings with the third quill 

 slightly longest, but with the fourth nearly equal ; tail distinctly 

 rounded. 



Dimensions. — Total length (of skin), from tip of bill to end of tail, 

 about nine inches; wing, four and one-fourth inches; tail, two and 

 three-fourths to three inches. 



Colors. — A distinct narrow stripe of white from the aperture of the 

 nostril to the eye, and slightly over it, but in some specimens with 

 difficulty traceable to the occiput, on which is a concealed transverse 

 bar of white, formed by every feather having a subterminal bar of this 

 color, and tipped with greenish-blue. Space between the eye and bill 

 black. A broad band commencing at and slightly under the base of 

 the lower mandible, extending to the occiput, composed of feathers 

 which are black at their bases and narrowly tipped with blue. This 



