GREEN TODY. 
the Todiers, or Todies, observes that "Sloan 
arid Browne are the first who have describee 
one of these birds, which they term Todus 
But," adds he, " besides this species from Ja 
ji^aica^ we know two or three others, wliic 
,ail seem to be natives of the hot climates o 
America. The discriminating character o 
the genus is that, as in the Kingfishers, an 
the Manakins, the middle toe is closely con 
nected — and, as it were, glued — to the outer 
toe, as far as the third joint ; but cohering 
the inner-toe, in the same way, only at th 
first joint. If we rested on this property 
therefore, we should class the Todies with th 
Manakins, or the Kingfishers: but they a 
distinguished from these — and, indeed, froi 
all other birds — by the form of the bill ; whie 
is long, straight, blunt at the end, and tlattene 
above and below; so that, they have bee 
called, by the Creoles of Guiana, Little Pa' 
lets, or Little Spatulas. This singular cor 
formation of their bill is alone sufficient 
constitute a distinct genus* 
" The North American Tody," contlnu 
Buffon, is not larger than the Gold-Crest( 
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