GREEN TODY. 
iren, being about four inches long. We 
Mall not, here," he observes, copy the long 
j ascriptions given by Browne, Sloane, and 
i risson ; because it will always be easy to 
siinguish the bird : for, besides the peculiari- 
of the bill, the upper side of the body, in the 
iale, is of a dilute green, and the under side 
' )se-colour ; and, in the Female, the back is 
' ^ a fine green, and the rest of the plumage 
milar to that of the Male. In both, the bill 
1 1 r reddish ; but lighter below, and brown 
)0ve. The legs are grey ; and the nails long 
jid hooked. The bird feeds on insects, and 
tl nail worms ; and it inhabits wet and seques- 
ai jred spots. The two subjects designed in the 
01 lanches Enluminees, were sent os from Do- 
\\i lingo by M. Chervain, under the name of 
11! [round Parrots, but with the description of the 
et jEmale only. He observes that, in the love 
^al lason, the Male has a feeble, though pleasant^ 
01 ^arble. — that the Female builds her nest in the 
I ry ground ; and, preferably on the friable 
;ould: and, for that reason, these birds chuse 
le ravines and water-gullies — that they often 
,1; :stle also, in the low guTiies of houses, yet 
stiii'vVays on the ground— that they make anex- 
J cavaticn 
