ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES 
By H. E. STRICKLAND. 
V.-ON TWO SPECIES OF TODIROSTRUM. 
Plate LXXXY. 
Mr. Sclater recently sent me a specimen of a Todirostrum which 
lie believed to be new, but on a close comparison of it with the 
T. granadense of Dr. Ilartlaub, described in the Revue Zoologique, 
1843, p. 289, I am of opinion that it is referable to that species. 
In fact, the only discrepancy between them is, that Dr. Ilartlaub 
describes the throat as “ obscure cinerea,” while in Mr. Sclater’s 
specimen it is fuscous or approaching to black; and that Dr. Hart- 
laub omits to mention the white patch which folloAvs this dark 
throat, and blends into the light cinereous of the breast. 
Mr. Sclater describes his bird as follows — 
“ T. supril olivaceo-virido; fronte medio cinerco; macula magna 
utrinque inter. rostrum et oculum alba; pennis caudaque nigrescen- 
tibus olivacco limbatis; subtds, gul& fusco-nigrcsccnte; jugulo et 
ventre albis; pectore cinereo; lateribus olivascentibus; fl exuni, tec- 
tricibus subalaribus crissoque pallide flavis; rostro nigro; pedibus 
carncis. 
Long, tota, 3 - 7; al®, i • 9 ; rostri, 4j; caud®, i . 6. 
This Todirostrum differs in style of plumage from any other 
species tTTat I am acquainted with; it agrees in structure and form 
with T. gulare (Temm.). It has a large round white spot before the 
eye like T. diops (Temm.), but may be distinguished from that bird 
by the peculiar markings of the under plumage. The throat is fus- 
cous black, next follows a triangularly shaped spot of the same pure 
white as the belly, while the breast is crossed by a broad cinereous 
band, which passes at the sides into olivaceous green. The bird is 
believed to be from New Grenada.” 
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