GREEN TODY. 
This elegant and beautiful bird was origi- 
laily figured by Edwards, under the appella- 
ion of the Green Sparrow, or Green Hum-- 
ning« Bird. Our ingenious ornithologist, how- 
;ver, appears to have been egregiously mis- 
aken, in his idea of referring it to either of 
hose classes: nor is his assertion, that " it 
lelongs to the same genus with the bird which 
le has called the Pyed Bird of Paradise," by 
ly means tenable* 
Having premised this, as a sufficient reason 
or departing from our usual practice of adopt- 
ig Edwards's names, with his figures, we shall 
ermit him to speak for himself- 
I ** This bird," says Edwards, ^* was 
rought from Jamaica by Mr. Harper, and is 
That Sir Hans Sloane has described by the 
bove name," [the Green Sparrow, or Green 
lumming-Bird] ** in the second volume of 
IS History of Jamaica. There was brought 
lother of the same species with this ; which, 
I; I suppose. 
