M^HITE-CHTNNED TODY. 123 



blackish colour with whitish edges and tip: colour 

 of the plumage gloss}^ blue-black, with the abdo- 

 men and vent fine purple-crimson, and a bar or 

 crescent of the same colour beneath the throat: 

 the edge of the ahdet or spurious wing, at the 

 shoulders, pale orange, and the scapular-feathers, 

 to the number of six or seven, white, lanceolate, 

 and spreading over the coverts: legs black: middle 

 and outer toes connected. This curious species 

 was preserved in the Leverian Museum, but its 

 native country was unknown : probably South 

 America. 



WHITE- CHINNED TODY, 



Todus gularis. T. fuscus, suhtus albidus, pectore fusco variegato, 



gula alba. Lath, ind, urn. 

 Brown Tody, whitish beneath, with the breast variegated with 



brown, and white throat. 

 White-chinned Tody. Latk. sijn. 



This was first described by Dr. Latham, and 

 measures about nine inches in length: its colour 

 is brown above, with the chin and under parts 

 white, sliglitly mottled round the neck and breast 

 with brown : bill an inch and three quarters long, 

 much compressed, three quarters of an inch broad 

 at the base^ and rather bending upwards at the 

 point: legs brown: outer toe united with the 

 middle one. Native region uncertain. 



