346 Mr. R. B. Sharpe on the Genus Todus. 
1838. Lesson, in the ‘ Annales des Sciences Naturelles/ 
vol. ix. p. 166, commences an article on birds with a few re¬ 
marks “ Snr Les Todiers/' and describes T. viridis , T. meoci- 
canus , and T. portoricensis. The last two species were col¬ 
lected by his brother, M. Adolphe Lesson; and as the former 
is circumstantially declared to be found near Tampico, it 
would be a puzzle to know what Mexican bird could have 
been mistaken for it, had there not been an evident error in 
locality. 
1839. D'Orbigny describes the bird of Cuba from Ramon 
de la Sagra's materials, and figures Todus multicolor (pi. xxii.). 
In the f Hand-list 9 (p. 79) Mr. Gray quotes “ cyanogenus, 
Sagra/' as a synonym of T. multicolor ; but I cannot find 
another reference to this name. 
1840. Mr. G. R. Gray, in his first 'List of Genera of 
Birds 9 (p. 9), places the Todinse between the Coracianse and 
the Eurylaiminse. 
1841. The same author, in a second edition of the above- 
mentioned ' List/ preserves the same order. 
1847. Mr. G. R. Gray, in his great work the ' Genera of 
Birds 9 (i. p. 63, t. 22), recognizes four species, viz. T. viridis , 
T. mexicanus, T. portoricensis , and “ T. subulatus, Gould 99 
The latter is the S.-Domingo Tody, and is figured but not de¬ 
scribed. The name must stand on the authority of the plate. 
1847. Lafresnaye (Rev. Zool. 1847, pp. 326-333) gives a 
review of the genus Todus , in which he recognizes four species. 
T. viridis he considers to be the Jamaican bird; T. domini - 
censis he describes as new; T. portoricensis , of Lesson, he 
quotes and correctly identifies with it T. multicolor of Gould; 
and of T. mexicanus he reproduces Lesson's original de¬ 
scription. 
1847. Mr. Gosse gives a figure of Todus viridis in his 
' Birds of Jamaica 9 (pi. xiv.), along with a very interesting 
account of the species (p. 72). He says that he does not be¬ 
lieve in the distinctness of T. multicolory “ the slight distinc¬ 
tions of hue being scarcely more than variations which I have 
found in Jamaican specimens; some of which, in my posses¬ 
sion, display the pale blue on the sides of the throat and the 
