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• Mr. R. B. Sharpe on the Genus Todus. 
Brisson's genus Todus , but associates with the type, T. viridis , 
the Tyrannine bird now known as Todirostrum cinereum. The 
diagnosis given will suit any member of the genus; but the 
references to Brown, Sloane, and Edwards sufficiently indi¬ 
cate that the Jamaican bird was intended. 
1783. BuflFon figures (very badly) the San-Domingo Tody 
in the * Planches Enluminees 3 (585. figs. 1, 2) as the Todier 
de St.-Domingue. 
1805 [?]. Desmarest, in the ‘ Histoire Naturelle des Tan- 
garas, des Manakins et des Todiers/ figures and describes 
(pi. 67) the Porto-Rico bird as Todus viridis. The date of 
this book on the title-page is given as 1805; but works are 
referred to in the text which were published many years 
later—for instance, VieilloPs article next mentioned. 
1819. The “ Todier vert 33 published by Vieillot in the 
‘ Nouveau Dictionnaire/xxxiy.p. 184, pi. 29. fig. 4 [fig. mala), 
is the San-Domingo bird. 
1823. Bonnaterre and Vieillot, in the ‘ Encyclopedic Me- 
thodique 3 (i. p. 269), describe T. viridis , but give the habitat 
erroneously as N. America. Their description appears to 
represent the San-Domingo species. 
1825. The Porto-Rico Tody is again figured by Oudart 
in VieilloPs f Galerie des Oiseaux 3 (pi. cxxiv.) as Todus 
viridis. 
1831. Lesson, in the f Traite d'Ornithologie* (p. 250), 
mentions Todus viridis , Gm., as an inhabitant of Porto Rico 
in the Antilles (Mauge ). 
1832-33. Swainson, in the second series of his f Zoological 
Illustrations 3 (vol. ii. pi. 66), figures the Jamaican bird as 
Todus viridis. 
1837. Swainson, in his f Natural History of Flycatchers' 
(p. 173), describes the Jamaican bird again, and figures it in 
the vignette as a frontispiece to the volume. 
1837. Mr. Gould figures in the ‘ leones avium 3 and de¬ 
scribes Todus multicolor from an unknown locality. He refers 
to the P.Z.S. for 1837 for the original description; but it 
does not appear to have been communicated to the Zoological 
Society. This species is now known to be from Cuba. 
