128 PLUMBEOUS TODY. 



white: upper parts black, but the inner margins 

 of some of the quili feathers, and the under coverts 

 of the wings white: tail very short; bill dusky: 

 legs black. Native of America. 



PLUMBEOUS TODY. 



Todus plumbeiis. T phmibeo-mgricans, suhtus niveus, 'vertice rc- 

 migibus rectricibusqut, wgricantibus. PalL spic. 6. p. 17. Lath, 

 ind. orn. 



Blackish lead-coloured Tody, milk-white beneath, with blackish 



crown^ wings, and tail. 

 Plumbeous Tody. Lath, syn. 



Described by Dr. Pallas: size of a Wren: 

 upper parts hoary lead-colour, inclining* to black 

 on the crown : beneath, from throat to tail, milk- 

 white : quills and tail dusky black with the outside 

 edges of the quill-featners white: bill and leg* 

 dusky. Native of Surinam. 



